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Rich Harris is a British web developer and award winning interactive journalist.[1] He created the web technologies Svelte and rollup. He previously worked for The Guardian as a front-end developer creating interactive articles.[2] He also worked as a graphics editor for The New York Times in a similar role.[3] He is now employed by Vercel to develop Svelte full time.[4]
Career
[edit]Rich Harris graduated from UCL with a BA in philosophy..[5] He initially worked for Citywire as a financial reporter, video journalist, and web producer[2]. He then worked for The Guardian's UK interactive team, which collectively won an Emmy[3]. He is now employed by Vercel (an American cloud platform) to develop Svelte full time[4]
Web projects
[edit]Svelte
[edit]Svelte was based on an earlier creation of Rich Harris known as Ractive.js,[6][7] a tool he created at The Guardian for the creation of interactive news stories.[8] It has since been repeatedly ranked as one of the most 'admired and desired' web frameworks in the Stack Overflow developer survey.
Rollup
[edit]rollup is a JavaScript module bundler[9] created by Rich Harris. As of the 10th of June, 2024, the project has 24,936 stars on GitHub.
References
[edit]- ^ "Rich Harris | International Center of Photography". www.icp.org. Retrieved 2024-06-10.
- ^ a b "Rich Harris | The Guardian". www.theguardian.com. Retrieved 2024-06-10.
- ^ a b "Rich Harris - The New York Times". www.nytimes.com. Retrieved 2024-06-10.
- ^ a b "Vercel welcomes Rich Harris, creator of Svelte – Vercel". vercel.com. Retrieved 2024-06-10.
- ^ "Rich Harris by Inspirational People". rich.ip.new. Retrieved 2024-06-10.
- ^ "The future of Svelte, an interview with Rich Harris – Vercel". vercel.com. Retrieved 2024-06-10.
- ^ "Rich Harris: The story of Svelte". OfferZen. Retrieved 2024-06-10.
- ^ "ractivejs.org| The diamond age of web development". ractivejs.org. Retrieved 2024-06-10.
- ^ Chiara, Rosario De (2022-06-01). "Using Rollup to package a library for TypeScript and JavaScript". LogRocket Blog. Retrieved 2024-06-10.