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Comment by Ilasky | Hacker News Reader

Sveltekit has been an absolute DREAM to learn and use with my app! Been tracking their 1.0 progress closely and it's been incredible.

Sveltekit + TailwindCSS + FastAPI has made it super easy to whip up functionality and have a fine-tuned approach as well.

As someone else said, the "I CAN'T BELIEVE IT WAS THAT EASY" is an ongoing sentiment whenever I use it.

Looking forward to seeing it grow and gain more popularity

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Do i get this right, using SvelteKit SSR frontend node server and it communicates with backend FastAPI server via json. This is nowadays called a normal stack oO. (by the way i like Svelte but SvelteKit makes only sense if you stay in JS land, and i'm not willing to jump ship from python to js/ts ;))

I tried htmx and so far i really like it and the + is i just have "one" backend.

SvelteKit SSR is a very good pair to Python backends, like FastAPI.

Can you expand? I don't get how you can use SSR with another language than Node. I always thought one has to use the static adapter.

the backend svelte (node) can actually make calls to the separate api server and render a 'fuller' page to the client on page load.

I believe this is what is meant.

Requests are routed reverse proxy (Caddy) -> Vite (SSR) -> Python (Pyramid).

SSR calls your backend APIs and renders templates.

Example from SvelteKit page.ts here:

https://github.com/tradingstrategy-ai/frontend/blob/master/s...

Some remarks

- page.ts is routed by Vite for every HTTP request for SSR and then it will fetch() data over backend API

- If rendered in the client, fetch() hits directly the backend API

- Both cases the template is rendered using the same logic (Svelte HTML templating, CSS, JS)

- You are going to need a template language any cases, like Django's one. Alternative way to think this is that SvelteKit is just a super powerful template engine.

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