Original Douay-Rheims Bible

The Original Douay-Rheims Bible online: the first complete English Catholic Bible, translated from the Latin Vulgate between 1582 and 1610. Read at thedouayrheims.com.

Stack

• SvelteKit 2 with Svelte 5
• Cloudflare Pages (static assets) + Cloudflare Workers (dynamic routes)
• Tailwind CSS 3
• TypeScript
• GitHub Actions for CI/CD with automatic CDN cache purge on deploy

Local Development

npm install
npm run dev

The dev server runs at http://localhost:5173.

Build

npm run build

The prebuild step (scripts/prepare-data.ts) compiles raw source data into optimised JSON bundles consumed at runtime. This runs automatically before every build.

Deploy

Deployments are handled by GitHub Actions on push to main. The workflow:

1. Runs npm run build
2. Publishes to Cloudflare Pages via Wrangler
3. Purges the Cloudflare CDN cache

Secrets required: CLOUDFLARE_API_TOKEN, CLOUDFLARE_ACCOUNT_ID, CLOUDFLARE_ZONE_ID.

Project Structure

src/
  routes/         # SvelteKit pages and API endpoints
    odr/          # Bible reader (routed through Worker for cache safety)
    compare/      # Side-by-side translation comparison
    search/       # Full-text search
    history/      # Editorial articles on the Bible's history
  lib/
    components/   # Shared UI components
    data/         # Data loaders and type definitions
scripts/
  prepare-data.ts # Build-time data pipeline
static/           # Favicons, webmanifest, robots.txt

Routing Architecture

ODR chapter pages (/odr/*/*) are served through the Cloudflare Worker rather than as static assets. This ensures the HTML always references the current build's asset hashes, preventing stale-chunk MIME errors when Cloudflare's CDN caches old HTML.

License

All rights reserved. Source available for reference.