Migrating from CodeIgniter #PHP to #SvelteKit is so easy and pleasant.
By building the site 15 years ago, and modernizing it today, I skipped over the awkward middle stage of making an API & fetching data to render it in the browser.
SvelteKit's form actions let you build a fast site that even works without #JavaScript, which means I'm going from server-side rendering with links & forms, to server-side rendering with links & forms. Except now I have the power of #Svelte to make it way nicer!
So my CodeIgniter views become Svelte templates. I go through each one and replace eg <? foreach ($list as $item): ?> to {#each list as item} etc. which is surprisingly straightforward.
Then, the CI models & libraries I copy to $lib/server, keep all the function structure and SQL the same, and just migrate PHP syntax to JavaScript.
Each route function in the CI controllers ends up mapping to a +page.server.js load function in each route.
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