Migrating to SvelteKit v2

Upgrading from SvelteKit version 1 to version 2 should be mostly seamless. There are a few breaking changes to note, which are listed here. You can use npx svelte-migrate sveltekit-2 to migrate some of these changes automatically.

We highly recommend upgrading to the most recent 1.x version before upgrading to 2.0, so that you can take advantage of targeted deprecation warnings. We also recommend updating to Svelte 4 first: Later versions of SvelteKit 1.x support it, and SvelteKit 2.0 requires it.

redirect and error are no longer thrown by youpermalink

Previously, you had to throw the values returned from error(...) and redirect(...) yourself. In SvelteKit 2 this is no longer the case — calling the functions is sufficient.

import { error } from '@sveltejs/kit'

...
 throw error(500, 'something went wrong');
 error(500, 'something went wrong');

svelte-migrate will do these changes automatically for you.

If the error or redirect is thrown inside a try {...} block (hint: don't do this!), you can distinguish them from unexpected errors using isHttpError and isRedirect imported from @sveltejs/kit.

path is required when setting cookiespermalink

When receiving a Set-Cookie header that doesn't specify a path, browsers will set the cookie path to the parent of the resource in question. This behaviour isn't particularly helpful or intuitive, and frequently results in bugs because the developer expected the cookie to apply to the domain as a whole.

As of SvelteKit 2.0, you need to set a path when calling cookies.set(...), cookies.delete(...) or cookies.serialize(...) so that there's no ambiguity. Most of the time, you probably want to use path: '/', but you can set it to whatever you like, including relative paths — '' means 'the current path', '.' means 'the current directory'.

export function load({ cookies }) {
	cookies.set(name, value);
	cookies.set(name, value, { path: '/' });
	return { response }
}

Top-level promises are no longer awaitedpermalink

In SvelteKit version 1, if the top-level properties of the object returned from a load function were promises, they were automatically awaited. With the introduction of streaming this behavior became a bit awkward as it forces you to nest your streamed data one level deep.

As of version 2, SvelteKit no longer differentiates between top-level and non-top-level promises. To get back the blocking behavior, use await (with Promise.all to prevent waterfalls, where appropriate):

// If you have a single promise
export function load({ fetch }) {
	const response = fetch(...).then(r => r.json());
	const response = await fetch(...).then(r => r.json());
	return { response }
}

// If you have multiple promises
export function load({ fetch }) {
	const a = fetch(...).then(r => r.json());
	const b = fetch(...).then(r => r.json());
	const [a, b] = await Promise.all([
	  fetch(...).then(r => r.json()),
	  fetch(...).then(r => r.json()),
	]);
	return { a, b };
}

path is now a required option for cookiespermalink

cookies.set, cookies.delete and cookies.serialize all have an options argument through which certain cookie serialization options are configurable. One of the is the path setting, which tells browser under which URLs a cookie is applicable. In SvelteKit 1.x, the path is optional and defaults to what the browser does, which is removing everything up to and including the last slash in the pathname of the URL. This means that if you're on /foo/bar, then the path is /foo, but if you're on /foo/bar/, the path is /foo/bar. This behavior is somewhat confusing, and most of the time you probably want to have cookies available more broadly (many people set path to / for that reason) instead of scratching their heads why a cookie they have set doesn't apply elsewhere. For this reason, path is a required option in SvelteKit 2.

// file: foo/bar/+page.svelte
export function load ({ cookies }) {
	cookies.set('key', 'value');
	cookies.set('key', 'value', { path: '/foo' });
}

svelte-migrate will add comments highlighting the locations that need to be adjusted.

goto(...) no longer accepts external URLspermalink

To navigate to an external URL, use window.location = url.

paths are now relative by defaultpermalink

In SvelteKit 1, %sveltekit.assets% in your app.html was replaced with a relative path by default (i.e. . or .. or ../.. etc, depending on the path being rendered) during server-side rendering unless the paths.relative config option was explicitly set to false. The same was true for base and assets imported from $app/paths, but only if the paths.relative option was explicitly set to true.

This inconsistency is fixed in version 2. Paths are either always relative or always absolute, depending on the value of paths.relative. It defaults to true as this results in more portable apps: if the base is something other than the app expected (as is the case when viewed on the Internet Archive, for example) or unknown at build time (as is the case when deploying to IPFS and so on), fewer things are likely to break.

Server fetches are not trackable anymorepermalink

Previously it was possible to track URLs from fetches on the server in order to rerun load functions. This poses a possible security risk (private URLs leaking), and as such it was behind the dangerZone.trackServerFetches setting, which is now removed.

preloadCode arguments must be prefixed with basepermalink

SvelteKit exposes two functions, preloadCode and preloadData, for programmatically loading the code and data associated with a particular path. In version 1, there was a subtle inconsistency — the path passed to preloadCode did not need to be prefixed with the base path (if set), while the path passed to preloadData did.

This is fixed in SvelteKit 2 — in both cases, the path should be prefixed with base if it is set.

Additionally, preloadCode now takes a single argument rather than n arguments.

Updated dependency requirementspermalink

SvelteKit requires Node 18.13 or higher, Vite ^5.0, vite-plugin-svelte ^3.0, TypeScript ^5.0 and Svelte version 4 or higher. svelte-migrate will do the package.json bumps for you.

As part of the TypeScript upgrade, the generated tsconfig.json (the one your tsconfig.json extends from) now uses "moduleResolution": "bundler" (which is recommended by the TypeScript team, as it properly resolves types from packages with an exports map in package.json) and verbatimModuleSyntax (which replaces the existing importsNotUsedAsValues and preserveValueImports flags — if you have those in your tsconfig.json, remove them. svelte-migrate will do this for you).