SvelteKit / Svelte 5 ???????

[yongrenjie]

i think demoland-web has grown beyond what we originally envisioned it would be a year ago, and it might make sense to upgrade the tech stack a little bit. In particular SvelteKit represents the easiest 'upgrade path' because the entirety of the components can essentially be reused (although we might have to fiddle with imports)

Pros:

• (SvelteKit) cleaner management of multiple areas. Right now we are essentially building a different site for each area and then sticking thte files together, which is quite ugly, and also doesn't aid discoverability (if you're on tyne_and_wear, you can't get to isle_of_wight easily). Also this leads to a lot of duplication of static assets (e.g. the demoland-engine wheel) in the built files because the same wheel is being bundled with every area.
• (Svelte 5) hopefully cleaner state management, especially in custom scenario creation UI

Cons:

• no HMR in Svelte 5 (yet). This isn't a huge deal for me because website loading is quite fast. also, testing custom scenario stuff has often required a hard refresh anyway.
• I don't have time to do this for another month 😅