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@Rich-Harris Rich-Harris commented Jun 17, 2025

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https://github.com/tc39/proposal-explicit-resource-management

Alternative to #16190, with the distinction that using declarations at the top level of a component are only disposed when the component unmounts.

I think I prefer this — it's more useful and more intuitive. Demo here.

On the server it doesn't transform anything, meaning resources are correctly disposed of once rendering is complete. Obviously all this is of limited use until support is sufficiently widespread, but I don't see any reason to hold it back until then. (The demo above actually works in all browsers, because top-level using gets compiled away for client code, but that doesn't apply to server code or non-top-level using.)

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pnpm add https://pkg.pr.new/svelte@16192

@Rich-Harris Rich-Harris changed the title feat: support using, link top-level using declarations in components to lifecycle feat: support using, link top-level using declarations in components to lifecycle Jun 17, 2025
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Fun idea from bskyusing x = $derived(...). Like regular using this would also be disposed on component unmount, but would additionally be disposed when the derived updated. Not quite sure what would happen outside the top level of a component though... maybe it would be forbidden to use it with unowned deriveds

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Fun idea from bskyusing x = $derived(...). Like regular using this would also be disposed on component unmount, but would additionally be disposed when the derived updated. Not quite sure what would happen outside the top level of a component though... maybe it would be forbidden to use it with unowned deriveds

So that would be like a 1 time $derived value?

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Would be nice to have corresponding template syntax {@using ...}

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This probably closes #8973

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Would be nice to have corresponding template syntax {@using ...}

Hm... How it could be useful?

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Hm... How it could be useful?

The usage is the same as the top-level declaration, only in the #if, #each and #snippet blocks

If a real example is needed, I would like to get rid of onDestroy in this method, example usage.

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Could anyone clarify status of support using, top-level and non-top-level in .svelte-files?

Now in any configuration in svelte.config.js:

preprocess: vitePreprocess()
// or
preprocess: vitePreprocess({ script: true })

and level:

I get error:

Unexpected token
https://svelte.dev/e/js_parse_error

But there are at least 2 places that say that it should work:

  1. https://svelte.dev/docs/svelte/typescript#Preprocessor-setup-Other-build-tools

To use non-type-only TypeScript features within Svelte components, you need to add a preprocessor that will turn TypeScript into JavaScript.

  1. https://github.com/sveltejs/vite-plugin-svelte/blob/main/docs/preprocess.md

TypeScript is no longer preprocessed by default as Svelte 5 understands most syntax natively. If you use TypeScript features that emit code (like enum, using, accessors, decorators or class declarations with visibility modifiers), you have to enable the script preprocessor by setting the script option to true.

These documentation are wrong?

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This isn't a merged feature, Svelte currently doesn't support parsing using declarations. If you want to try it out, install using this command:

pnpm add https://pkg.pr.new/svelte@16192

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