[soggybutter]

Unless I'm misunderstanding you, Svelte can absolutely be published statically. If you leverage SvelteKit and the SSR it offers, then yes you need to deploy a server, but regular Svelte builds a statically deployable bundle just like React, Vue, or any other big UI lib/framework

[orangepanda]

I think they meant that svelte cannot be used without a build step.

The fact that builds dont need a second build is nice to know, even if useless.