Svelte: Supporting .animate() ?

[bestguy]

I really loved using Ractive's .animate() (http://docs.ractivejs.org/latest/ractive-animate) to transition values. Would you be open to adding this to Svelte?

[Rich-Harris]

I think methods like animate should be available, but not included by default, since it adds a non-trivial amount of code that a lot of apps don't need.

The easiest way would probably be to have a svelte/extras directory with extra methods and (maybe) a selection of common plugins:

<div><!-- template goes here --></div>

<script>
  import animate from 'svelte/extras/animate.js';

  export default {
    methods: {
      animate
    }
  };
</script>

(Of course, this could be done as a completely third-party thing, though I like the batteries-included approach.)

[andymans]

+1 for having this type of functionality as separate 'AddOn' modules. It yields a lighter core, plus allows for 'specialist' committers to focus on their own subject matter area e.g. 'Charting', 'Animation' etc without needing to care about the core code-base.

[Rich-Harris]

We now have https://github.com/sveltejs/svelte-extras, which includes an animate method — closing this