Do I Really Need Svelte in My Django Project? — A Practical Checklist I Wrote After Comparing Vanilla JS vs. Frameworks

The author shares a practical checklist for deciding whether to adopt Svelte/SvelteKit or stick with vanilla JS in a Django side project. After encountering DOM spaghetti and state desync bugs, they settled on a Python-first architecture using Django templates for SEO pages and Svelte bundles for interactive dashboards, with a Cloudflare Worker BFF for API key security and edge caching.