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"What novel tools are you using to write web sites/apps?" ??? is that not the prompt

SvelteKit as a project is literally 4 months old (since announced), but Sapper (the predecessor) have been around for longer, and SvelteKit has been used on NYT's county-level COVID tracker. There will be some teething problems but it's definitely not a totally greenfield project.

Well, Svelte itself is a bit older than that. And of all the modern Javascript frameworks, Svelte has been, for me, the most joyful to work with.

However, to your comment, I agree - there's unnecessary amount of complexity in the stack above. For me, it's usually Svelte in front, with any server side application.