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> Even though it was far from ready, SvelteKit was the only framework that matched our esoteric requirements. (Anyone who has worked in a newsroom and done battle with their CMS will know what I'm talking about.)

I would be interested to hear more about the esoteric requirements; whether they're performance-related, have to do with what's representable in the CMS, or something else. At any rate, those NYT covid tracker pages are great and I have (sadly) spent a lot of time with them over the past year.

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things like:

• we can't have any dynamic pages, everything has to be static HTML

• we don't control the actual page; our job is to create a fragment of HTML that the CMS stitches into the body, then associate that fragment with some publish metadata...

• ...but during development, we need a simulacra of the NYT article template

• we have to be able to create AMP versions of almost every page

• our old app was already fairly Svelte-centric, and we wanted to reuse as much as possible

• we wanted to use client-side navigation to avoid page reloads (while capturing custom navigation analytics) e.g. because it makes no sense to make people load MapboxGL repeatedly

It's possible that we could have coaxed one of the existing static site generators into fulfilling all these requirements, but it seemed like we'd be in uncharted territory without the benefit of having the SSG maintainer on staff!

Are there any plans to support deno?

Not concrete plans but I expect it will happen, yes (at the very least in the sense of having an `adapter-deno` to allow the built app to run in Deno; running SvelteKit _itself_ in Deno is a separate issue)

Yeah, that will require rewriting lot of code for development so I understand.

Just curious, are you aware of few of the spinoffs of svelte for deno like snel?

https://github.com/crewdevio/Snel

Have you used deno for any toy projects and how did you like it? Any wishes or criticism?

I just tried snel. It works pretty well. I'm looking forward to use it for my upcoming book on Deno.

Aleph.js (Deno alternative for Next.js) is worth trying. Though, Deno and Aleph.js are still in early phases for production use.

i was surprised to learn how many counties in the US are still considered high risk.

also its a pretty cool indication of trust in Rich that they let him build his own metaframework and dogfood it in production at NYT scale. not sure what else i can draw about that (its probably not a good idea to let most devs do that) but its cool

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