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Imperative component API

In Svelte 3 and 4, the API for interacting with a component is different than in Svelte 5. Note that this page does not apply to legacy mode components in a Svelte 5 application.

Creating a component

// @noErrors
const component = new Component(options);

A client-side component — that is, a component compiled with generate: 'dom' (or the generate option left unspecified) is a JavaScript class.

// @noErrors
import App from './App.svelte';

const app = new App({
	target: document.body,
	props: {
		// assuming App.svelte contains something like
		// `export let answer`:
		answer: 42
	}
});

The following initialisation options can be provided:

option	default	description
`target`	none	An `HTMLElement` or `ShadowRoot` to render to. This option is required
`anchor`	`null`	A child of `target` to render the component immediately before
`props`	`{}`	An object of properties to supply to the component
`context`	`new Map()`	A `Map` of root-level context key-value pairs to supply to the component
`hydrate`	`false`	See below
`intro`	`false`	If `true`, will play transitions on initial render, rather than waiting for subsequent state changes

Existing children of target are left where they are.

The hydrate option instructs Svelte to upgrade existing DOM (usually from server-side rendering) rather than creating new elements. It will only work if the component was compiled with the hydratable: true option. Hydration of <head> elements only works properly if the server-side rendering code was also compiled with hydratable: true, which adds a marker to each element in the <head> so that the component knows which elements it's responsible for removing during hydration.

Whereas children of target are normally left alone, hydrate: true will cause any children to be removed. For that reason, the anchor option cannot be used alongside hydrate: true.

The existing DOM doesn't need to match the component — Svelte will 'repair' the DOM as it goes.

/// file: index.js
// @noErrors
import App from './App.svelte';

const app = new App({
	target: document.querySelector('#server-rendered-html'),
	hydrate: true
});

[!NOTE] In Svelte 5+, use mount instead

`$set`

// @noErrors
component.$set(props);

Programmatically sets props on an instance. component.$set({ x: 1 }) is equivalent to x = 1 inside the component's <script> block.

Calling this method schedules an update for the next microtask — the DOM is not updated synchronously.

// @noErrors
component.$set({ answer: 42 });

[!NOTE] In Svelte 5+, use $state instead to create a component props and update that
// @noErrors
let props = $state({ answer: 42 });
const component = mount(Component);
// ...
props.answer = 24;

`$on`

// @noErrors
component.$on(ev, callback);

Causes the callback function to be called whenever the component dispatches an event.

A function is returned that will remove the event listener when called.

// @noErrors
const off = component.$on('selected', (event) => {
	console.log(event.detail.selection);
});

off();

[!NOTE] In Svelte 5+, pass callback props instead

`$destroy`

// @noErrors
component.$destroy();

Removes a component from the DOM and triggers any onDestroy handlers.

[!NOTE] In Svelte 5+, use unmount instead

Component props

// @noErrors
component.prop;

// @noErrors
component.prop = value;

If a component is compiled with accessors: true, each instance will have getters and setters corresponding to each of the component's props. Setting a value will cause a synchronous update, rather than the default async update caused by component.$set(...).

By default, accessors is false, unless you're compiling as a custom element.

// @noErrors
console.log(component.count);
component.count += 1;

[!NOTE] In Svelte 5+, this concept is obsolete. If you want to make properties accessible from the outside, export them

Server-side component API

// @noErrors
const result = Component.render(...)

Unlike client-side components, server-side components don't have a lifespan after you render them — their whole job is to create some HTML and CSS. For that reason, the API is somewhat different.

A server-side component exposes a render method that can be called with optional props. It returns an object with head, html, and css properties, where head contains the contents of any <svelte:head> elements encountered.

You can import a Svelte component directly into Node using svelte/register.

// @noErrors
require('svelte/register');

const App = require('./App.svelte').default;

const { head, html, css } = App.render({
	answer: 42
});

The .render() method accepts the following parameters:

parameter	default	description
`props`	`{}`	An object of properties to supply to the component
`options`	`{}`	An object of options

The options object takes in the following options:

option	default	description
`context`	`new Map()`	A `Map` of root-level context key-value pairs to supply to the component

// @noErrors
const { head, html, css } = App.render(
	// props
	{ answer: 42 },
	// options
	{
		context: new Map([['context-key', 'context-value']])
	}
);

[!NOTE] In Svelte 5+, use render instead

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