Imperative component API
Every Svelte application starts by imperatively creating a root component. On the client this component is mounted to a specific element. On the server, you want to get back a string of HTML instead which you can render. The following functions help you achieve those tasks.
mount
Instantiates a component and mounts it to the given target:
import { function mount<Props extends Record<string, any>, Exports extends Record<string, any>>(component: ComponentType<SvelteComponent<Props>> | Component<Props, Exports, any>, options: MountOptions<Props>): ExportsMounts a component to the given target and returns the exports and potentially the props (if compiled with accessors: true) of the component.
Transitions will play during the initial render unless the intro option is set to false.
mount } from 'svelte';
import type App = SvelteComponent<Record<string, any>, any, any>
const App: LegacyComponentType
const app: {
$on?(type: string, callback: (e: any) => void): () => void;
$set?(props: Partial<Record<string, any>>): void;
} & Record<string, any>
mount<Record<string, any>, {
$on?(type: string, callback: (e: any) => void): () => void;
$set?(props: Partial<Record<string, any>>): void;
} & Record<...>>(component: ComponentType<...> | Component<...>, options: MountOptions<...>): {
...;
} & Record<...>
Mounts a component to the given target and returns the exports and potentially the props (if compiled with accessors: true) of the component.
Transitions will play during the initial render unless the intro option is set to false.
mount(const App: LegacyComponentTypeApp, {
target: Document | Element | ShadowRootTarget element where the component will be mounted.
target: var document: Documentdocument.ParentNode.querySelector<Element>(selectors: string): Element | null (+4 overloads)Returns the first element that is a descendant of node that matches selectors.
querySelector('#app'),
props?: Record<string, any> | undefinedComponent properties.
props: { some: stringsome: 'property' }
});You can mount multiple components per page, and you can also mount from within your application, for example when creating a tooltip component and attaching it to the hovered element.
Note that unlike calling new App(...) in Svelte 4, things like effects (including onMount callbacks, and action functions) will not run during mount. If you need to force pending effects to run (in the context of a test, for example) you can do so with flushSync().
unmount
Unmounts a component that was previously created with mount or hydrate.
If options.outro is true, transitions will play before the component is removed from the DOM:
import { function mount<Props extends Record<string, any>, Exports extends Record<string, any>>(component: ComponentType<SvelteComponent<Props>> | Component<Props, Exports, any>, options: MountOptions<Props>): ExportsMounts a component to the given target and returns the exports and potentially the props (if compiled with accessors: true) of the component.
Transitions will play during the initial render unless the intro option is set to false.
mount, function unmount(component: Record<string, any>, options?: {
outro?: boolean;
} | undefined): Promise<void>
Unmounts a component that was previously mounted using mount or hydrate.
Since 5.13.0, if options.outro is true, transitions will play before the component is removed from the DOM.
Returns a Promise that resolves after transitions have completed if options.outro is true, or immediately otherwise (prior to 5.13.0, returns void).
import { mount, unmount } from 'svelte';
import App from './App.svelte';
const app = mount(App, { target: document.body });
// later...
unmount(app, { outro: true });
unmount } from 'svelte';
import type App = SvelteComponent<Record<string, any>, any, any>
const App: LegacyComponentType
const app: {
$on?(type: string, callback: (e: any) => void): () => void;
$set?(props: Partial<Record<string, any>>): void;
} & Record<string, any>
mount<Record<string, any>, {
$on?(type: string, callback: (e: any) => void): () => void;
$set?(props: Partial<Record<string, any>>): void;
} & Record<...>>(component: ComponentType<...> | Component<...>, options: MountOptions<...>): {
...;
} & Record<...>
Mounts a component to the given target and returns the exports and potentially the props (if compiled with accessors: true) of the component.
Transitions will play during the initial render unless the intro option is set to false.
mount(const App: LegacyComponentTypeApp, { target: Document | Element | ShadowRootTarget element where the component will be mounted.
target: var document: Documentdocument.Document.body: HTMLElementSpecifies the beginning and end of the document body.
body });
// later
function unmount(component: Record<string, any>, options?: {
outro?: boolean;
} | undefined): Promise<void>
Unmounts a component that was previously mounted using mount or hydrate.
Since 5.13.0, if options.outro is true, transitions will play before the component is removed from the DOM.
Returns a Promise that resolves after transitions have completed if options.outro is true, or immediately otherwise (prior to 5.13.0, returns void).
import { mount, unmount } from 'svelte';
import App from './App.svelte';
const app = mount(App, { target: document.body });
// later...
unmount(app, { outro: true });
unmount(const app: {
$on?(type: string, callback: (e: any) => void): () => void;
$set?(props: Partial<Record<string, any>>): void;
} & Record<string, any>
outro?: boolean | undefinedoutro: true });Returns a Promise that resolves after transitions have completed if options.outro is true, or immediately otherwise.
render
Only available on the server and when compiling with the server option. Takes a component and returns an object with body and head properties on it, which you can use to populate the HTML when server-rendering your app:
import { function render<Comp extends SvelteComponent<any> | Component<any>, Props extends ComponentProps<Comp> = ComponentProps<Comp>>(...args: {} extends Props ? [component: Comp extends SvelteComponent<any> ? ComponentType<Comp> : Comp, options?: {
props?: Omit<Props, "$$slots" | "$$events">;
context?: Map<any, any>;
}] : [component: Comp extends SvelteComponent<any> ? ComponentType<Comp> : Comp, options: {
props: Omit<Props, "$$slots" | "$$events">;
context?: Map<any, any>;
}]): RenderOutput
Only available on the server and when compiling with the server option.
Takes a component and returns an object with body and head properties on it, which you can use to populate the HTML when server-rendering your app.
render } from 'svelte/server';
import type App = SvelteComponent<Record<string, any>, any, any>
const App: LegacyComponentType
const result: RenderOutputresult = render<SvelteComponent<Record<string, any>, any, any>, Record<string, any>>(component: ComponentType<SvelteComponent<Record<string, any>, any, any>>, options?: {
...;
} | undefined): RenderOutput
Only available on the server and when compiling with the server option.
Takes a component and returns an object with body and head properties on it, which you can use to populate the HTML when server-rendering your app.
render(const App: LegacyComponentTypeApp, {
props?: Omit<Record<string, any>, "$$slots" | "$$events"> | undefinedprops: { some: stringsome: 'property' }
});
const result: RenderOutputresult.RenderOutput.body: stringHTML that goes somewhere into the <body>
body; // HTML for somewhere in this <body> tag
const result: RenderOutputresult.RenderOutput.head: stringHTML that goes into the <head>
head; // HTML for somewhere in this <head> taghydrate
Like mount, but will reuse up any HTML rendered by Svelte’s SSR output (from the render function) inside the target and make it interactive:
import { function hydrate<Props extends Record<string, any>, Exports extends Record<string, any>>(component: ComponentType<SvelteComponent<Props>> | Component<Props, Exports, any>, options: {} extends Props ? {
target: Document | Element | ShadowRoot;
props?: Props;
events?: Record<string, (e: any) => any>;
context?: Map<any, any>;
intro?: boolean;
recover?: boolean;
} : {
target: Document | Element | ShadowRoot;
props: Props;
events?: Record<string, (e: any) => any>;
context?: Map<any, any>;
intro?: boolean;
recover?: boolean;
}): Exports
Hydrates a component on the given target and returns the exports and potentially the props (if compiled with accessors: true) of the component
hydrate } from 'svelte';
import type App = SvelteComponent<Record<string, any>, any, any>
const App: LegacyComponentType
const app: {
$on?(type: string, callback: (e: any) => void): () => void;
$set?(props: Partial<Record<string, any>>): void;
} & Record<string, any>
hydrate<Record<string, any>, {
$on?(type: string, callback: (e: any) => void): () => void;
$set?(props: Partial<Record<string, any>>): void;
} & Record<...>>(component: ComponentType<...> | Component<...>, options: {
...;
}): {
...;
} & Record<...>
Hydrates a component on the given target and returns the exports and potentially the props (if compiled with accessors: true) of the component
hydrate(const App: LegacyComponentTypeApp, {
target: Document | Element | ShadowRoottarget: var document: Documentdocument.ParentNode.querySelector<Element>(selectors: string): Element | null (+4 overloads)Returns the first element that is a descendant of node that matches selectors.
querySelector('#app'),
props?: Record<string, any> | undefinedprops: { some: stringsome: 'property' }
});As with mount, effects will not run during hydrate — use flushSync() immediately afterwards if you need them to.