SvelteKit Preview Mode

SvelteKit Preview Mode is a library for SvelteKit that helps you easily enable preview mode for content management systems (CMSs). With this library, you can preview draft or unpublished content without any hassle. This is intended to be a SvelteKit equivelant of the Next.js Preview Mode.

Demo (using Hygraph)

• Live
• Preview Mode

Installation

To install SvelteKit Preview Mode, run the following command:

pnpm add sveltekit-preview-mode -D

Usage

To use SvelteKit Preview Mode, simply import it in your SvelteKit application:

// src/hooks.server.ts
import type { Handle } from "@sveltejs/kit";
import { PREVIEW_SECRET } from "$env/static/private";
import previewMode from "sveltekit-preview-mode";

export const handle: Handle = previewMode({
  previewSecret: PREVIEW_SECRET,
});

Don't forget to set the PREVIEW_SECRET environment variable. This can be any string you'd like. If you need to add additional handlers, you can do so using the sequence helper function.

In order to share the preview status in the client, you'll need to add this to +layout.server.ts:

// src/routes/+layout.server.ts
import type { LayoutServerLoad } from "./$types";

/**
 * Return the `exitPreviewQueryParam` and `isPreview` values so that they can be referenced in client-side code.
 */
export const load = (({ locals: { exitPreviewQueryParam, isPreview } }) => {
  return {
    exitPreviewQueryParam,
    isPreview,
  };
}) satisfies LayoutServerLoad;

And then in +layout.ts we need to update the store to hold the preview status:

// src/routes/+layout.ts
import { setPreview } from "sveltekit-preview-mode";
import type { LayoutLoad } from "./$types";

/**
 * Call `setPreview` with the `isPreview` value so that the `isPreview` value can be referenced in client-side code.
 */
export const load = (({ data: { isPreview } }) => {
  setPreview(isPreview);
}) satisfies LayoutLoad;

Displaying Preview Status

To display a banner when preview mode is enabled, import the PreviewMode banner component into +layout.svelte:

<!-- src/routes/+layout.svelte -->
<script lang="ts">
  import { PreviewBanner } from "sveltekit-preview-mode";
</script>

<PreviewBanner />

You can now retrieve the preview status by importing the isPreview function, and call it to retrieve the current preview status.

Enabling Preview Mode

To enable preview mode, add the query parameter ?secret=PREVIEW_SECRET to any route. This will then check for a matching secret, and update the isPreview value, and set a cookie to securely persist preview mode between sessions.

Disabling Preview Mode

To disable preview mode, add the query parameter ?exit-preview to any route. This will then update the isPreview value, and update the cookie value.

Examples

• Hygraph
• Contentful

Options

The previewMode handle function has a few options that can be set:

interface PreviewModeOptions {
  previewSecret: string;
  cookieName?: string;
  cookieOpts?: CookieSerializeOptions;
  exitPreviewQueryParam?: string;
  secretTokenQueryParam?: string;
}

Contributing

If you'd like to contribute to SvelteKit Preview Mode, feel free to open an issue or pull request on our GitHub repository.

Credits

This project is inspired by the Vercel Next.js team's approach in providing Preview Mode functionality. Thanks for their hard work! 🖤

License

SvelteKit Preview Mode is released under the ISC License.