svelte-check

What is svelte-check?

The svelte-check npm package is a command-line tool designed to provide type checking and linting for Svelte projects. It leverages TypeScript and Svelte's own compiler to ensure that your Svelte components are free of type errors and adhere to best practices.

What are svelte-check's main functionalities?

Type Checking

This command runs type checking on your Svelte project, ensuring that all TypeScript code within your Svelte components is type-safe. It helps catch type errors early in the development process.

npx svelte-check

Linting

This command runs linting on your Svelte project using the specified TypeScript configuration file. It helps enforce coding standards and best practices within your Svelte components.

npx svelte-check --tsconfig ./tsconfig.json

Watch Mode

This command runs svelte-check in watch mode, continuously checking your Svelte project for type errors and linting issues as you make changes. It provides real-time feedback during development.

npx svelte-check --watch

Other packages similar to svelte-check

eslint

ESLint is a widely-used linting tool for JavaScript and TypeScript projects. While it is not specific to Svelte, it can be configured to work with Svelte projects using plugins like eslint-plugin-svelte3. Compared to svelte-check, ESLint offers more extensive linting rules and customization options but requires additional configuration for Svelte.

typescript

TypeScript is a superset of JavaScript that adds static typing. The TypeScript compiler (tsc) can be used to type-check Svelte projects, but it does not provide Svelte-specific linting. svelte-check combines TypeScript's type-checking capabilities with Svelte-specific linting, making it more tailored for Svelte projects.

prettier

Prettier is an opinionated code formatter that can be used to format Svelte files. While it does not provide type checking or linting, it ensures consistent code style across your project. svelte-check focuses on type checking and linting, whereas Prettier focuses on code formatting.

README

Check your code with svelte-check

Provides CLI diagnostics checks for:

• Unused CSS
• Svelte A11y hints
• JavaScript/TypeScript compiler errors

Requires Node 16 or later.

Usage:

Local / in your project

Installation:

npm i svelte-check --save-dev

Package.json:

{
    // ...
    "scripts": {
        "svelte-check": "svelte-check"
        // ...
    },
    // ...
    "devDependencies": {
        "svelte-check": "..."
        // ...
    }
}

Usage:

npm run svelte-check

Global (not recommended)

Installation:

npm i svelte-check svelte -g

Usage:

1. Go to folder where to start checking
2. svelte-check

Args:

Flag	Description
--workspace <path>	Path to your workspace. All subdirectories except node_modules and those listed in --ignore are checked
--output <human|human-verbose|machine>
--watch	Will not exit after one pass but keep watching files for changes and rerun diagnostics
--preserveWatchOutput	Do not clear the screen in watch mode
--tsconfig <path>	Pass a path to a tsconfig or jsconfig file. The path can be relative to the workspace path or absolute. Doing this means that only files matched by the files/include/exclude pattern of the config file are diagnosed. It also means that errors from TypeScript and JavaScript files are reported. If not given, will do an upwards traversal looking for the next jsconfig/tsconfig.json
--no-tsconfig	Use this if you only want to check the Svelte files found in the current directory and below and ignore any JS/TS files (they will not be type-checked)
--ignore <path1,path2>	Only has an effect when used in conjunction with --no-tsconfig. Files/folders to ignore - relative to workspace root, comma-separated, inside quotes. Example: --ignore "dist,build". When used in conjunction with --tsconfig, this will only have effect on the files watched, not on the files that are diagnosed, which is then determined by the tsconfig.json
--fail-on-warnings	Will also exit with error code when there are warnings
--compiler-warnings <code1:error|ignore,code2:error|ignore>	A list of Svelte compiler warning codes. Each entry defines whether that warning should be ignored or treated as an error. Warnings are comma-separated, between warning code and error level is a colon; all inside quotes. Example: --compiler-warnings "css-unused-selector:ignore,unused-export-let:error"
--diagnostic-sources <js,svelte,css>	A list of diagnostic sources which should run diagnostics on your code. Possible values are js (includes TS), svelte, css. Comma-separated, inside quotes. By default all are active. Example: --diagnostic-sources "js,svelte"
--threshold <error|warning>	Filters the diagnostics to display. error will output only errors while warning will output warnings and errors.

FAQ

Why is there no option to only check specific files (for example only staged files)?

svelte-check needs to know the whole project to do valid checks. Imagine you alter a component property export let foo to export let bar, but you don't update any of the component usages. They all have errors now but you would not catch them if you only run checks on changed files.

More docs, preprocessor setup and troubleshooting

See here.

Machine-Readable Output

Setting the --output to machine will format output in a way that is easier to read by machines, e.g. inside CI pipelines, for code quality checks, etc.

Each row corresponds to a new record. Rows are made up of columns that are separated by a single space character. The first column of every row contains a timestamp in milliseconds which can be used for monitoring purposes. The second column gives us the "row type", based on which the number and types of subsequent columns may differ.

The first row is of type START and contains the workspace folder (wrapped in quotes).

Example:

1590680325583 START "/home/user/language-tools/packages/language-server/test/plugins/typescript/testfiles"

Any number of ERROR or WARNING records may follow. Their structure is identical and tells us the filename, the line and column numbers, and the error message. The filename is relative to the workspace directory. The filename and the message are both wrapped in quotes.

Example:

1590680326283 ERROR "codeactions.svelte" 1:16 "Cannot find module 'blubb' or its corresponding type declarations."
1590680326778 WARNING "imported-file.svelte" 0:37 "Component has unused export property 'prop'. If it is for external reference only, please consider using `export const prop`"

The output concludes with a COMPLETED message that summarizes total numbers of files, errors and warnings that were encountered during the check.

Example:

1590680326807 COMPLETED 20 FILES 21 ERRORS 1 WARNINGS

If the application experiences a runtime error, this error will appear as a FAILURE record.

Example:

1590680328921 FAILURE "Connection closed"

Credits

• Vue's VTI which laid the foundation for svelte-check