Libraries not working with svelte-preprocess v6

[flayks]

Describe the bug
After upgrading to svelte-preprocess v6, I get into errors using libraries such as @portabletext/svelte where it just says that PortableText is not defined.

Is it linked to the PortableText lib here or svelte-preprocess? The thing that bugs me is that it works perfectly fine with the v5, without changing any code or other dependencies. Just upgrading to svelte-preprocess v6 breaks it.

Logs

generating static routes 
│ 12:57:47 ▶ src/pages/404.astro
│ 12:57:47   └─ /404.html (+106ms)
│ 12:57:48 ▶ src/pages/index.astro
│ 12:57:48   └─ /index.htmlPortableText is not defined
│   Stack trace:
│     at file:///Users/flayks/sites/portfolio/apps/website/dist/chunks/index_SkFUPnTb.mjs:244:31
│     at file:///Users/flayks/sites/portfolio/apps/website/dist/chunks/index_SkFUPnTb.mjs:338:260
│     at Object.render (file:///Users/flayks/sites/portfolio/apps/website/dist/chunks/Button_C7xTWKNE.mjs:31
│ 2:17)
│     at renderFrameworkComponent (file:///Users/flayks/sites/portfolio/apps/website/dist/chunks/astro/serve
│ r_Bc54YaF1.mjs:1111:66)
│     at async renderComponent (file:///Users/flayks/sites/portfolio/apps/website/dist/chunks/astro/server_B
│ c54YaF1.mjs:1271:10)
│ error: script "build" exited with code 1
│ command finished with error: command (/Users/flayks/sites/portfolio/apps/website) /Users/flayks/.volta/bi
│ n/bun run build exited (1)
└────>
 ERROR  run failed: command  exited (1)
error: script "build" exited with code 1

To Reproduce
A bit trivial to reproduce using this specific example with Sanity and PortableText, but just using 5.1.4 vs 6.0.1 breaks the build.

Expected behavior
It should be normally without error

Information about your project:

• Arc
• macOS
• svelte-preprocess version 6.0.1
• Astro v4.11

[dummdidumm]

Please provide a proper reproduction in form of link to a repository on Github or Stackblitz

[flayks]

@dummdidumm here is a minimal reproduction of my setup using Turborepo, bun and Astro with some Svelte components. There is some SCSS imports for global variables and functions as well as a local variables file.

https://github.com/flayks/svelte-preprocess-v6

If you run bun i && bun run build, you'll have this error:

...

│  building client (vite) 
│ 20:11:27 [types] Added src/env.d.ts type declarations.
│ 20:11:27 [vite] ✓ 1 modules transformed.
│ 20:11:27 [vite] dist/_astro/client.Cx1FBVJX.js  0.61 kB │ gzip: 0.42 kB
│ 20:11:27 [vite] ✓ built in 8ms
│ 
│  generating static routes 
│ 20:11:27 ▶ src/pages/index.astro
│ 20:11:27   └─ /index.htmlPortableText is not defined

...

it is using the v6.0.1 (latest) of svelte-preprocess.

Now if you switch to the branch v5 and run the same exact code, it builds without any issue.

This makes me think that svelte-preprocess v6 is handling things a bit different, although my code might be faulty! But I can't figure out what part if so.

Thank you for digging into this!

[dummdidumm]

Can you reduce this further and use node instead of Bun (I'm on windows)? I doubt that turborepo or bun have something to do with it.
My hunch is #632 has something to do with this.

[flayks]

@dummdidumm No worries, I updated both branches to use pnpm instead

Ha! that could potentially be something yes

[dummdidumm]

I can't reproduce this, I get a different one though: Error while preprocessing C:/repos/svelte/asp/apps/website/src/components/Test/Test.svelte - [sass] Undefined variable.

Please shrink down the reproduction further:

• no monorepo, just the app with the styles needed in the same folder as the app
• no turborepo

[flayks]

Hm, that's weird. I've pushed a branch 'nomonorepo' and it seems to build. Would that mean that it comes from the use of a monorepo?

It's a pity because the whole purpose of this is to share Svelte configs through multiple apps (packages/config/svelte.js),
hence the monorepo (I have 4 apps in totals). Would you know why that happens, if that's really coming from this?

[jacwright]

I don't have a monorepo and am getting this same error moving from 5.x to 6. It is occurring with all my imports in the Svelte files, as if the imports don't exist. The error only happens at runtime for me, not compile time. But I can see the errors in VSCode as warnings.

I'll see if I can get a reproduction put together.

[jacwright]

I found it is occurring when verbatimModuleSyntax is not defined or is false. This is the issue. But our app is very large, so there is a lot of busy work to go through every file (both .Svelte and .ts) to add the type keyword to support this requirement. How necessary is verbatimModuleSyntax, exactly? Since 5.x was able to get by without it. 😬

If you'd like me to provide a simple example I can, but you can probably turn off verbatimModuleSyntax and reproduce in any project.

Edit: we'll probably stick with 5.x for now so we don't have to refactor our whole app. It doesn't seem we're missing out on any features or benefits with 6.x.

[flayks]

After trying this on another whole site and setup, I can assure that the issue comes from svelte-preprocess v6. Same errors, internal svelte tools would not be found, types missing, etc. Sticking to v5 for now as well but I think there is a real issue with it @dummdidumm.

[dummdidumm]

@jacwright this is noted in the list of breaking changes. It is required because there were previously two other options, both of which are deprecated/removed:

• it was possible to get the same using some combination of certain tsconfig options (preserveValueImports etc) which are all deprecated by TypeScript and cease to function in TS5.5+
• there was a black-magic/best-effort transpiler within the preprocessor that made it work which is removed in version 6

My guess is you were probably implicitly using the latter. As for the large app and the refactoring: It's "only" a matter of adding type prefixes to the imports, e.g. import { someValueImport, SomeTypeImport } from 'somewhere' becomes import { someValueImport, type SomeTypeImport } from 'somewhere'. So while it's a lot of busywork it's nothing that can really go wrong or changes the behavior of your code.

@flayks from what I can see your issue looks different though, so these are unrelated things.

[jacwright]

@dummdidumm yeah, I know. We can do it, but it is hundreds of files. And we have to do it over everything, not just Svelte files. [sigh]

[dummdidumm]

@jacwright yeah it's tedious for sure - wondering if there's a way to write a migration script for this.

@flayks I finally got to the bottom of this. The sass error I mentioned was a red herring - it came from an unrelated Astro bug where configuration files are resolved from on Windows. When I fixed that locally I finally saw the error.

Turns out it's in fact the same verbatimModuleSyntax problem. When the preprocessor reads the files, it tries to find the closest tsconfig for each. For those inside the components it doesn't find one (because there is none), so it falls back to nothing, which also means verbatimModuleSyntax is unset.

You can fix this by either adding a tsconfig.json with right config to the components package or by setting the typescript.tsconfigDirectory option for sveltePreprocess.

I'll also add additional logic to set verbatimModuleSyntax to true in case no config is found.