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

Introduction


While adding features like a hamburger menu, OAuth login, and per-user settings to a side project, I started to feel the limits of plain HTML/CSS/JavaScript (hereafter vanilla JS). As stateful widgets multiplied, so did the DOM spaghetti. That raised the million-dollar question:


"Should I adopt Svelte (or SvelteKit), or keep...