Svelte Chicago - March 2026

Name: Svelte Chicago - March 2026
Start: 2026-03-24T22:30:00+00:00
End: 2026-03-25T01:00:00+00:00
Location: 200 N LaSalle St, Suite 800

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Svelte Chicago

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Ready to join in on the fun?

🏙️ Come hang out with us at Svelte Chicago!

Interested in Svelte? Join us for pizza, beverages, and networking at the M1 Finance office for the next meeting of the Chicago chapter of Svelte Society!

📄 Web Serialization and SvelteKit: JSON.stringify, Devalue, and Beyond

Devalue is the client-server serialization library used by SvelteKit. In this talk, Robert Ismo will go over why we want serialization libraries, the what and why of devalue, and the current limitations of devalue and other solutions.

🕖 Agenda

Pizza and networking at 5:30pm
Introductions at 6:15pm
Web Serialization and SvelteKit at 6:30pm
More networking
At 8pm, you don't have to go home, but you can't stay there

Special thanks to M1 Finance for hosting and Storyblok for sponsoring!

Presentations

Robert Ismo

Web Serialization and SvelteKit: JSON.stringify, Devalue, and Beyond

Devalue is the client-server serialization library used by SvelteKit. In this talk, I will go over why we want serialization libraries, the what and why of devalue, and the current limitations of devalue and other solutions.

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