SvelteKit on AWS with SST

There are two ways to deploy a SvelteKit app to AWS with SST.

1. Serverless
2. Containers

We’ll use both to build a couple of simple apps below.

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Examples

We also have a few other SvelteKit examples that you can refer to.

• Hit counter with Redis and SvelteKit in a container

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Serverless

We are going to create a SvelteKit app, add an S3 Bucket for file uploads, and deploy it using the SvelteKit component.

View source

You can view the source of this example in our repo.

Before you get started, make sure to configure your AWS credentials.

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1. Create a project

Let’s start by creating our app.

npx sv create aws-svelte-kit
cd aws-svelte-kit

We are picking the SvelteKit minimal and Yes, using TypeScript syntax options.

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Init SST

Now let’s initialize SST in our app.

npx sst@latest init
npm install

Select the defaults and pick AWS. This’ll create a sst.config.ts file in your project root.

It’ll also ask you to update your svelte.config.mjs with something like this.

svelte.config.mjs

import adapter from '@sveltejs/adapter-auto';
import adapter from "svelte-kit-sst";

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Start dev mode

Run the following to start dev mode. This’ll start SST and your SvelteKit app.

npx sst dev

Once complete, click on MyWeb in the sidebar and open your SvelteKit app in your browser.

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2. Add an S3 Bucket

Let’s allow public access to our S3 Bucket for file uploads. Update your sst.config.ts.

sst.config.ts

const bucket = new sst.aws.Bucket("MyBucket", {
  access: "public"
});

Add this above the SvelteKit component.

Link the bucket

Now, link the bucket to our SvelteKit app.

sst.config.ts

new sst.aws.SvelteKit("MyWeb", {
  link: [bucket]
});

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3. Create an upload form

Let’s add a file upload form. Replace your src/routes/+page.svelte. This will upload a file to a given pre-signed upload URL.

src/routes/+page.svelte

<script>
  /** @type {import('./$types').PageData} */
  export let data;

  const handleSubmit = async (e) => {
    const formData = new FormData(e.target);
    const file = formData.get("file");

    const image = await fetch(data.url, {
      body: file,
      method: "PUT",
      headers: {
        "Content-Type": file.type,
        "Content-Disposition": `attachment; filename="${file.name}"`,
      },
    });

    window.location.href = image.url.split("?")[0];
  };
</script>

<section>
  <form on:submit|preventDefault={handleSubmit}>
    <input name="file" type="file" accept="image/png, image/jpeg" />
    <button type="submit">Upload</button>
  </form>
</section>

Add some styles.

src/routes/+page.svelte

<style>
  section {
    flex: 0.6;
    display: flex;
    padding-top: 4rem;
    align-items: center;
    flex-direction: column;
    justify-content: center;
  }
</style>

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4. Generate a pre-signed URL

When our route loads, we’ll generate a pre-signed URL for S3 and our form will upload to it. Create a new src/routes/+page.server.ts and add the following.

src/routes/+page.server.ts

/** @type {import('./$types').PageServerLoad} */
export async function load() {
  const command = new PutObjectCommand({
    Key: crypto.randomUUID(),
    Bucket: Resource.MyBucket.name,
  });
  const url = await getSignedUrl(new S3Client({}), command);

  return { url };
}

Tip

We are directly accessing our S3 bucket with Resource.MyBucket.name.

Add the relevant imports.

src/routes/+page.server.ts

import { Resource } from "sst";
import { getSignedUrl } from "@aws-sdk/s3-request-presigner";
import { S3Client, PutObjectCommand } from "@aws-sdk/client-s3";

And install the npm packages.

npm install @aws-sdk/client-s3 @aws-sdk/s3-request-presigner

Head over to the local SvelteKit app in your browser, http://localhost:5173 and try uploading an image. You should see it upload and then download the image.

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5. Deploy your app

Now let’s deploy your app to AWS.

npx sst deploy --stage production

You can use any stage name here but it’s good to create a new stage for production.

Congrats! Your app should now be live!

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Containers

We are going to create a SvelteKit app, add an S3 Bucket for file uploads, and deploy it in a container with the Cluster component.

View source

You can view the source of this example in our repo.

Before you get started, make sure to configure your AWS credentials.

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1. Create a project

Let’s start by creating our project.

npx sv create aws-svelte-container
cd aws-svelte-container

We are picking the SvelteKit minimal and Yes, using TypeScript syntax options.

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Init SST

Now let’s initialize SST in our app.

npx sst@latest init
npm install

Select the defaults and pick AWS. This’ll create a sst.config.ts file in your project root.

It’ll also ask you to update your svelte.config.mjs. But we’ll instead use the Node.js adapter since we’re deploying it through a container.

npm i -D @sveltejs/adapter-node

And updating your svelte.config.js.

svelte.config.mjs

import adapter from '@sveltejs/adapter-auto';
import adapter from '@sveltejs/adapter-node';

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2. Add a Service

To deploy our SvelteKit app in a container, we’ll use AWS Fargate with Amazon ECS. Replace the run function in your sst.config.ts.

sst.config.ts

async run() {
  const vpc = new sst.aws.Vpc("MyVpc");
  const cluster = new sst.aws.Cluster("MyCluster", { vpc });

  new sst.aws.Service("MyService", {
    cluster,
    loadBalancer: {
      ports: [{ listen: "80/http", forward: "3000/http" }],
    },
    dev: {
      command: "npm run dev",
    },
  });
}

This creates a VPC, and an ECS Cluster with a Fargate service in it.

Note

By default, your service in not deployed when running in dev.

The dev.command tells SST to instead run our SvelteKit app locally in dev mode.

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Start dev mode

Run the following to start dev mode. This’ll start SST and your SvelteKit app.

npx sst dev

Once complete, click on MyService in the sidebar and open your SvelteKit app in your browser.

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3. Add an S3 Bucket

Let’s allow public access to our S3 Bucket for file uploads. Update your sst.config.ts.

sst.config.ts

const bucket = new sst.aws.Bucket("MyBucket", {
  access: "public"
});

Add this below the Vpc component.

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Link the bucket

Now, link the bucket to the container.

sst.config.ts

new sst.aws.Service("MyService", {
  // ...
  link: [bucket],
});

This will allow us to reference the bucket in our SvelteKit app.

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4. Create an upload form

Let’s add a file upload form. Replace your src/routes/+page.svelte. This will upload a file to a given pre-signed upload URL.

src/routes/+page.svelte

<script>
  /** @type {import('./$types').PageData} */
  export let data;

  const handleSubmit = async (e) => {
    const formData = new FormData(e.target);
    const file = formData.get("file");

    const image = await fetch(data.url, {
      body: file,
      method: "PUT",
      headers: {
        "Content-Type": file.type,
        "Content-Disposition": `attachment; filename="${file.name}"`,
      },
    });

    window.location.href = image.url.split("?")[0];
  };
</script>

<section>
  <form on:submit|preventDefault={handleSubmit}>
    <input name="file" type="file" accept="image/png, image/jpeg" />
    <button type="submit">Upload</button>
  </form>
</section>

Add some styles.

src/routes/+page.svelte

<style>
  section {
    flex: 0.6;
    display: flex;
    padding-top: 4rem;
    align-items: center;
    flex-direction: column;
    justify-content: center;
  }
</style>

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5. Generate a pre-signed URL

When our route loads, we’ll generate a pre-signed URL for S3 and our form will upload to it. Create a new src/routes/+page.server.ts and add the following.

src/routes/+page.server.ts

/** @type {import('./$types').PageServerLoad} */
export async function load() {
  const command = new PutObjectCommand({
    Key: crypto.randomUUID(),
    Bucket: Resource.MyBucket.name,
  });
  const url = await getSignedUrl(new S3Client({}), command);

  return { url };
}

Tip

We are directly accessing our S3 bucket with Resource.MyBucket.name.

Add the relevant imports.

src/routes/+page.server.ts

import { Resource } from "sst";
import { getSignedUrl } from "@aws-sdk/s3-request-presigner";
import { S3Client, PutObjectCommand } from "@aws-sdk/client-s3";

And install the npm packages.

npm install @aws-sdk/client-s3 @aws-sdk/s3-request-presigner

Head over to the local SvelteKit app in your browser, http://localhost:5173 and try uploading an image. You should see it upload and then download the image.

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6. Deploy your app

To deploy our app we’ll add a Dockerfile.

Dockerfile

FROM node:18.18.0-alpine AS builder

WORKDIR /app
COPY package*.json .
RUN npm install
COPY . .
RUN npm run build
RUN npm prune --prod

FROM builder AS deployer

WORKDIR /app
COPY --from=builder /app/build build/
COPY --from=builder /app/package.json .
EXPOSE 3000
ENV NODE_ENV=production
CMD [ "node", "build" ]

This builds our SvelteKit app in a Docker image.

Tip

You need to be running Docker Desktop to deploy your app.

Let’s also add a .dockerignore file in the root.

.dockerignore

.DS_Store
node_modules

Now to build our Docker image and deploy we run:

npx sst deploy --stage production

You can use any stage name here but it’s good to create a new stage for production.

Congrats! Your app should now be live!

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Connect the console

As a next step, you can setup the SST Console to git push to deploy your app and view logs from it.

You can create a free account and connect it to your AWS account.