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> SvelteKit is in early development, and some things may change before we hit version 1.0. This document is a work-in-progress. If you get stuck, reach out for help in the [Discord chatroom](https://svelte.dev/chat).
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> See the [migration guides](migrating) for help upgrading from older versions.
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> See the [migration guides](migrating) for help upgrading from Sapper.
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### What is SvelteKit?
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You don't need to know Svelte to understand the rest of this guide, but it will help. In short, it's a UI framework that compiles your components to highly optimized vanilla JavaScript. Read the [introductory blog post](https://svelte.dev/blog/svelte-3-rethinking-reactivity) and the [tutorial](https://svelte.dev/tutorial) to learn more.
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### Why the name?
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SvelteKit is meant to be a full kit of everything necessary to build a Svelte application.
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### Comparison with Next.js
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[Next.js](https://github.com/zeit/next.js) is a React framework from [Vercel (formerly ZEIT)](https://vercel.com), and is the inspiration for SvelteKit. There are a few notable differences, however:
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* SvelteKit is powered by Svelte instead of React, so it's faster and your apps are smaller
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* As well as *pages*, you can create *server routes* in your `src/routes` directory. This makes it very easy to, for example, add a JSON API such as the one powering this very page (try visiting [/docs.json](/docs.json))
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* Links are just `<a>` elements, rather than framework-specific `<Link>` components. That means, for example, that [this link right here](/), despite being inside a blob of markdown, works with the router as you'd expect
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### Getting started
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The easiest way to start building a SvelteKit app is to run `npm init`:

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