# Source: https://rsbuild.dev/plugins/list/plugin-svelte.md

# Svelte plugin

import { SourceCode } from '@theme';

<SourceCode href="https://github.com/web-infra-dev/rsbuild/tree/main/packages/plugin-svelte" />

The Svelte plugin provides support for Svelte components (`.svelte` files). The plugin internally integrates [svelte-loader](https://github.com/sveltejs/svelte-loader).

## Quick start

### Install plugin

You can install the plugin using the following command:

import { PackageManagerTabs } from '@theme';

<PackageManagerTabs command="add @rsbuild/plugin-svelte -D" />

### Register plugin

You can register the plugin in the `rsbuild.config.ts` file:

```ts title="rsbuild.config.ts"
import { pluginSvelte } from '@rsbuild/plugin-svelte';

export default {
  plugins: [pluginSvelte()],
};
```

After registering the plugin, you can import `*.svelte` files in your code.

## Options

To customize the compilation behavior of Svelte, use the following options.

### svelteLoaderOptions

These options are passed to `svelte-loader`. For details, see the [svelte-loader documentation](https://github.com/sveltejs/svelte-loader).

* **Type:** `SvelteLoaderOptions`
* **Default:**

```js
const defaultOptions = {
  compilerOptions: {
    dev: isDev,
  },
  preprocess: require('svelte-preprocess')(),
  emitCss: isProd && !rsbuildConfig.output.injectStyles,
  hotReload: isDev && rsbuildConfig.dev.hmr,
};
```

* **Example:**

```ts
pluginSvelte({
  svelteLoaderOptions: {
    preprocess: null,
  },
});
```

### preprocessOptions

These options are passed to `svelte-preprocess`. For details, see the [svelte-preprocess documentation](https://github.com/sveltejs/svelte-preprocess/blob/c2107e529da9438ea5b8060aa471119940896e40/docs/preprocessing.md).

* **Type:** `AutoPreprocessOptions`
* **Default:** `undefined`

```ts
interface AutoPreprocessOptions {
  globalStyle: { ... },
  replace: { ... },
  typescript: { ... },
  scss: { ... },
  sass: { ... },
  less: { ... },
  stylus: { ... },
  babel: { ... },
  postcss: { ... },
  coffeescript: { ... },
  pug: { ... },
}
```

* **Example:**

```ts
pluginSvelte({
  preprocessOptions: {
    aliases: [
      ['potato', 'potatoLanguage'],
      ['pot', 'potatoLanguage'],
    ],
    /** Add a custom language preprocessor */
    potatoLanguage({ content, filename, attributes }) {
      const { code, map } = require('potato-language').render(content);
      return { code, map };
    },
  },
});
```

## Notes

Currently, `svelte-loader` does not support HMR for Svelte v5, see [svelte-loader - Hot Reload](https://github.com/sveltejs/svelte-loader?tab=readme-ov-file#hot-reload).

### Alias handling in Less/Sass

When using aliases to import Less or Sass files within Svelte components, you need to manually configure the preprocessor to handle alias resolution. Otherwise, you may encounter `"file not found"` errors.

* **Example:**

```ts title="rsbuild.config.ts"
import { pluginSvelte } from '@rsbuild/plugin-svelte';

export default {
  plugins: [
    pluginSvelte({
      preprocessOptions: {
        scss: {
          importer: [
            // Handle alias imports for SCSS files
            (url, prev) => {
              if (url.startsWith('@/')) {
                return { file: url.replace('@/', 'src/') };
              }
              return null;
            },
          ],
        },
        less: {
          // recommend simple alias handling for Less files
          replace: [['@/style', 'style']],
          // use less plugin to handle alias imports
          plugins: [],
        },
      },
    }),
  ],
};
```

This ensures that alias imports like `@import '@/styles/variables.scss'` or `@import '@/styles/variables.less'` are properly resolved within Svelte components.