When in my beginner days, every side project started the same way.. it's usually, that Django or DRF on one side, a Svelte app on the other, and a weekend gone on wiring auth, CORS and two deploys before writing a single actual feature. like, for work-scale projects, fair enough. but for small and medium projects, like mine, solo ones, that was always more hassle than the project itself. so back in August 2022 I started a project called fymo, to make one-repo Python+Svelte projects a normal thing to build.
I got stuck early, compiling Svelte from Python and making the two sides talk to each other was beyond me then, so it sat there for a while, like my other side projects did. between years, i came back and forth, but this time it stuck, and I finished it.
fymo renders real Svelte 5 components from Python stuff like; esbuild compiles them at build time, one long-lived Node process does the SSR, and the browser hydrates them like any Svelte app.
day to day it'll feel familiar: controllers are basically views that return a dict, and the dict lands in Svelte as props. functions under app/remote/ become typed imports in Svelte, so no serializer, no endpoint, no fetch code. fymo new gives a running app with sign in, fymo generate resource posts gives a routed page, CRUD endpoints and a passing test file. fymo destroy takes it back out, unless you edited the files, then it refuses.
Anything misconfigured fails at boot with the fix right there in the error message. Nothing falls back silently. that's most of the design philosophy really.
But to be clear, it's not Django and it's not trying to be. no ORM, no admin, no forms, bring your own data layer. if you need those, Django is still the right call. this is for when Django plus DRF plus a separate frontend repo felt like three tools for a one-tool job.
But limitations, honestly: you need Node installed (build and runtime), it's WSGI not asyncio, no ORM, one maintainer, and it's v0.20 so things still break between versions, loudly though.
Repo: https://github.com/Bishwas-py/fymo pip install fymo
I'd honestly like to hear where it breaks, unusual project shapes are exactly what I can't simulate on my own.
