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.

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.

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] = Promise.all([
	  fetch(...).then(r => r.json()),
	  fetch(...).then(r => r.json()),
	]);
	return { a, b };
}

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.

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).