[Bug]: Incompatible with Svelte 5 (pre-release)

[anowell]

Would you like to work on a fix?

• Check this if you would like to implement a PR, we are more than happy to help you go through the process.

Current and expected behavior

Importing a chartjs component (e.g. Bar) with Svelte 5 ([email protected]) yields this error message:

Your application, or one of its dependencies, imported from 'svelte/internal', which was a private module used by Svelte 4 components that no longer exists in Svelte 5. It is not intended to be public API. If you're a library author and you used 'svelte/internal' deliberately, please raise an issue on https://github.com/sveltejs/svelte/issues detailing your use case.

I haven't looked any further than simply confirming the import in this library:

svelte-chartjs/src/utils/svelte.ts

Lines 1 to 6 in 4333128

	import {
	SvelteComponent,
	bubble,
	listen,
	current_component,
	} from 'svelte/internal';

Reproduction

[did not create shareable repro - merely confirmed svelte/internal is import]

chart.js version

4.4.2

svelte-chartjs version

3.1.5

Possible solution

No response

[shahedsalehi]

I just updated my project to svelte [email protected] and I encountered the same issue.

[anowell]

I've implemented a fix here: anowell@155042f

It's basically a rewrite of src/util/svelte.ts to work directly with the DOM, and then changes to the base Chart component to setup event listeners more explicitly.

It's certainly a breaking change, and I don't know that it's "correct", but it seems to work, still supports attaching event listeners (tested on the Bar chart storybook story), and I think it cleans them up. And I didn't mean to bump so many devDependencies, but I'm several years removed from the frontend dev tooling ecosystem so might have run a few too many unneeded pnpm commands.

From here, what it would take for this repo/package to support Svelte 5? Is it a new version? Should we wait for Svelte 5 to release? Is there an expectation of Svelte 4 compatibility? Is there some glaring issue with the implementation? Is there some other testing expectation I've completely overlooked? I could put together a PR if the missing pieces are relatively small, or I'm happy to have someone steal whatever they need from my change to put together a better solution.

Fwiw, I'm currently using it in a prototype with no intent to maintain beyond that prototype, so I advise against using my fork for anything beyond experimenting/testing.

[LukePeltier]

@SauravKanchan is this work planned? Would love to continue to use this library in svelte.

[andupotorac]

Same issue here, this doesn't work for Svelte 5.

[avi12]

Svelte 5 was released, this library doesn't work
For the time being, I'll use Svelte 4, but if this library doesn't support 5, I'll ditch it at some point

[PierrickP]

@anowell Can you propose a proper PR here (without console.log) ? 🙏

[MarcGodard]

This project isn't very active. If someone forks and fix, please let this thread know. If its not fixed by next month, I will do it.

[avi12]

Following the repository's source code, I managed to replicate the behavior in Svelte 5
TL;DR

<script lang="ts">
  import { BarController, BarElement, CategoryScale, Chart, LinearScale, TimeScale, Tooltip } from "chart.js";

  import "chartjs-adapter-date-fns";

  let elCanvas: HTMLCanvasElement;

  Chart.register(Tooltip, BarElement, BarController, CategoryScale, LinearScale, TimeScale);

  let chart: Chart;

  onMount(() => {
    chart = new Chart(elCanvas, {
      type: "bar",
      data,
      options: {
        scales: {
          y: {
            grace: "5%"
          },
          x: {
            ticks: {
              callback(i) {
                // ...
              },
              color
            }
          }
        },
        plugins: {
          legend: {
            display: false
          },
          tooltip: {
            callbacks: {
              title(tooltipItem) {
                // ...
              }
            }
          }
        },
        animation: false
      }
    });
  });

  const themeInUse = $derived("light");
  const color = $derived(themeInUse === "dark" ? "#fffFFF" : "#1B1B1B");

  $effect(() => {
    if (chart) {
      chart.data = data;
      chart.update();
    }
  });

  $effect(() => {
    if (chart) {
      chart.config.options.scales.x.ticks.color = color;
      chart.config.options.scales.y.ticks.color = color;
      chart.update();
    }
  });

  // https://www.chartjs.org/docs/latest/charts/bar.html
  const data = $derived({
    datasets: [
      {
        data: (() => {
          // ...
          }, []);
        })(),
        backgroundColor: "#1BE7FF"
      }
    ]
  });
</script>

<canvas bind:this={elCanvas}></canvas>

[fev4]

took inspiration from @avi12 (thank you btw) and here's a complete working component for <Line/> in Svelte 5 that you can just drop in as a replacement

my hope is that you can use this Line component as a guide to create every other component you might need

in any case, here it is:

<script lang="ts">
  import {
    Chart,
    Tooltip,
    type ChartData,
    type ChartOptions,
  } from 'chart.js';
  import type { HTMLCanvasAttributes } from 'svelte/elements';

  import 'chart.js/auto';
  import 'chartjs-adapter-date-fns';

  interface Props extends HTMLCanvasAttributes {
    data: ChartData<'line', number[], string>;
    options: ChartOptions<'line'>;
  }

  const { data, options, ...rest }: Props = $props();

  Chart.register(Tooltip);

  let canvasElem: HTMLCanvasElement;
  let chart: Chart;

  $effect(() => {
    chart = new Chart(canvasElem, {
      type: 'line',
      data,
      options,
    });

    return () => {
      chart.destroy();
    };
  });

  $effect(() => {
    if (chart) {
      chart.data = data;
      chart.update();
    }
  });
</script>

<canvas bind:this={canvasElem} {...rest}></canvas>

note a couple of things:

• uses Chart.register() to only register the things I personally need, you might need others
• doesn't use onMount instead only $effect calls
• it returns on one of the $effect calls to clean up the chart when doing internal transitions, in order to avoid errors like Uncaught Error: Canvas is already in use. Chart with ID '15' must be destroyed before the canvas with ID '' can be reused.
• uses typescript to extend the HTMLCanvasAttribute so that users of the Line component can pass props like height, and so on
• it also uses specific types to the Line chart from chart.js types
• I'm importing some extensions like chart.js/auto and chartjs-adapter-date-fns, you might not need those
• it's a very simple implementation but that's mostly why I like it

IMHO svelte-chartjs is not needed anymore as with the simplicity and extensibility Svelte 5 offers, a simple Line component can be created as seen above, svelte-chartjs can still have a place but I believe it would need to offer some other differentiation