I've been building forms within React SPAs for so long that I forgot about the default form behaviour of the web.

It's great to see Svelte / SvelteKit support the good old GET -> POST -> Redirect workflow workflow along with the ability to enhance its behaviour using JS as well!

I understand it's possible to do this using modern React based frameworks as well, but Svelte / SvelteKit makes it so easy.

I've had fun over the last 3-4 days rebuilding this site!

Here's the stack:

• Django and Django Admin backed by sqlite for all data entry.
• A small script to copy data from the sqlite database into a JSON file used by the frontend.
• Svelte for the frontend. Sveltekit for static site generation. Vite is ever present under the hood.
• rsync to copy the static site directory to a Digital Ocean droplet
• Nginx running on the droplet to serve the site
• Cloudflare to handle HTTPS and caching

I've taken Django Admin's capability for granted for more than a decade, but I got an opportunity to appreciate this time. I tried to vibe-code the admin backend. But it came nowhere close to Django's quality. So I stuck with Django.

As a fairly new Svelte user, I was pleasantly surprised by how well SvelteKit works. Navigating between pages is a breeze since SvelteKit intelligently prefetches data and components in the background.

Since the workflow is now smooth enough, I'm tempted to chirp more!