Svelte ships with several reactive classes that you can use in place of JavaScript built-in objects — namely Map, Set, Date, URL and URLSearchParams.
In this exercise, we could declare date using $state(new Date()) and reassign it inside the setInterval. But a nicer alternative is to use SvelteDate from svelte/reactivity:
App
<script>
import { SvelteDate } from 'svelte/reactivity';
let date = new SvelteDate();
// ...
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<script>
let date = new Date();
const pad = (n) => n < 10 ? '0' + n : n;
$effect(() => { const interval = setInterval(() => {date.setTime(Date.now());
}, 1000);
return () => {clearInterval(interval);
};
});
</script>
<p>The time is {date.getHours()}:{pad(date.getMinutes())}:{pad(date.getSeconds())}</p>