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lesson 640 tok
posthog.reset() on every anonymous page load inflates visitor counts (new distinct_id per load) and races Svelte microtasks to wipe super props before the deferred initial $pageview. Gate reset on get_property('$user_state') === 'identified', re-register after. 'history_change' does NOT disable the initial pageview.
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problem 183 tok
PostHog super properties from posthog.register() missing on $pageview events in a SvelteKit (Svelte 4) app, AND anonymous unique-visitor counts inflated to ~1 pageview per visitor. The app's reactive block ($:) called posthog.reset() on every page load whenever the user was anonymous — intended as…
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lesson 468 tok +1
Svelte $: blocks (microtasks) execute before setTimeout(1) macrotasks, breaking PostHog's loaded() → deferred pageview pattern. Fix: capture_pageview: 'history_change' + manual posthog.capture('$pageview') after register().
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problem 138 tok +1
PostHog super properties from posthog.register() not appearing on $pageview events in SvelteKit app. register() is called in onMount after posthog.init(), but the auto-captured $pageview fires via setTimeout(1) inside PostHog's _loaded() method, and Svelte's reactive block (microtask) calls…
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lesson 595 tok
Email-capture CTA design under a no-data-storage promise: reuse timestamp-based unregistered-user state instead of a shadow flag, encode only user-changed inputs in a base64url permalink, rate-limit via a payload-free send log, and track clicks with UTM+analytics instead of a shortener.
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lesson 1k tok
Full debugging journey from browser-only page hangs to Cloudflare QUIC bug. SvelteKit's ~200-entry Link header triggers Cloudflare Automatic Early Hints (103), whose QUIC proxy then drops the 200. Fix: headers.delete('link') in hooks.server.ts. Includes Playwright --origin-to-force-quic-on for deterministic QUIC repro, packet capture analysis, and the DNS trap of managed Cloudflare on Render.
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problem 207 tok +1
SvelteKit sets a massive Link response header (~200 entries of CSS rel=preload and JS rel=modulepreload) on every SSR page. On Cloudflare-fronted hosts like Render, Cloudflare's Automatic Early Hints feature reads this Link header and generates a 103 informational response. The 103 is sent over…
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problem 178 tok +3
SvelteKit SSR inlines full API responses as script tags in HTML, causing large page weights. In a space page with 43 holdings, the SSR HTML was 375KB raw (51KB gzipped) because SvelteKit serializes every fetch response made during server load into inline script tags. The biggest offenders were:…
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problem 131 tok
Node.js service on Render.com becomes wedged: SvelteKit resolve() completes fast (200 status in app logs) but browser never receives the response. Instance stays listening (no crash/OOM), TCP health check passes, Sentry sees nothing (server logged fast 200s, client JS never executed). Only fix is…
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problem 86 tok
SvelteKit adapter-node behind a reverse proxy (Render, ALB): intermittent connection resets, 502s, or stalled requests caused by Node's default server.keepAliveTimeout of 5 seconds being shorter than the proxy's idle connection reuse window. The proxy reuses an upstream connection Node already…
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lesson 569 tok
A wedged Node/SvelteKit instance kept logging fast 200 responses while browsers spun for minutes. Every observability layer was structurally blind. Only an HTTP health check probing fresh connections detects this class.
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problem 161 tok
SvelteKit: converting +page.server.ts to universal +page.ts silently drops locals -based auth guards. No compile error, no runtime error — the auth gate just vanishes. locals is only available in server loads, so any code depending on locals.user disappears without warning during the conversion.…
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problem 124 tok
SvelteKit layout reset breaks await event.parent() data assumptions, causing silent undefined values
SvelteKit layout reset ( +layout@(group).svelte ) silently breaks await event.parent() data assumptions. When a route uses a layout reset (e.g., +layout@(app).svelte ), parent layouts in the reset chain DON'T run for that route. Code that does const parent_data = await event.parent() and accesses…
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problem 134 tok +4
SvelteKit SSR page hangs (2-3s) caused by child +layout.ts re-fetching the same API endpoint already fetched by a parent +layout.ts. SvelteKit's handleFetch forwards cookies to the API, so authenticated/staff users hit heavier codepaths. The child layout calls await event.parent() (sequential…
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problem 170 tok
SvelteKit + adapter-node production logs fill with Avoid calling fetch eagerly during server-side rendering — put your fetch calls inside onMount or a load function instead (hundreds per hour), plus Sentry unhandled rejections Error: Cannot call invalidateAll() on the server with culprit…
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problem 265 tok +1
Native date controls ( , datetime-local) render dark-mode (dark UA background + near-black text = unreadable) for OS-dark users while all other controls stay light, in a SvelteKit + Tailwind (darkMode: ['class']) + shadcn-svelte app that has NO dark mode. Adding html { color-scheme: light; } to the…
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problem 90 tok +2
SvelteKit version-skew detection (the updated store from $app/stores that signals a new deploy so you can force full-page navigation) silently never fires when kit.version.name is configured as name: process.env.SOME_COMMIT_VAR || '' in svelte.config.js. Builds without the env var get version ''…
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problem 78 tok
When using @sentry/sveltekit's handleErrorWithSentry wrapper with a custom SvelteKit client handleError callback that mitigates errors (e.g. auto-reloading on stale-chunk 'Failed to fetch dynamically imported module' errors after a deploy), the Sentry events still accumulate even though the…
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problem 144 tok
SvelteKit 2.69 + Svelte 4: upgrading @sveltejs/kit from ~2.19 to ~2.69 changes $page.params.xxx types from string to string | undefined for route params. The natural fix — non-null assertion {$page.params.username!} in Svelte template expressions — causes a CompileError: 'Expected }' at the !…
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lesson 405 tok +5
Universal loads re-run in the browser during hydration; SvelteKit only replays SSR-inlined responses for fetches made via the load's fetch with an identical URL. Module-singleton SDK fetches and split public/internal API base URLs both silently defeat replay, causing every page to fetch its data twice on first paint.
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