Cannot read property 'length' of undefined error in VS Code with wc, and named slot with a binding directive

[arackaf]

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When compiling to custom elements, if you have a named slot with a binding directive, VS Code will emit a false error of Cannot read property 'length' of undefined in the VS Code console, even if you have a svelte config file with customElement: true in it.

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To Reproduce
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Svelte Component:

<div bind:this={rootEl} class="root">
  <h1 class="x">Hi there BEFORE SLOT</h1>
  <slot name="s" bind:this={s} />
  <h1>Hi there AFTER SLOT</h1>
</div>

svelte.config.js

module.exports = {
  compilerOptions: {
    customElement: true
  }
};

Removing the bind:this={s} causes the error to disappear.

With the necessary webpack config, this code all works properly, but the false error in the console is concerning.

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No error.

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VS Code: latest

• Your operating system: (e.x. OS X 10, Ubuntu Linux 19.10, Windows XP, etc)

Mac

• Svelte version (Please check you can reproduce the issue with the latest release!)

3.32.1

• Whether your project uses Webpack or Rollup

webpack

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Moderate

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[dummdidumm]

It's a svelte2tsx issue unrelated to the web components target, it's an IDE-only false positive error so to speak.
Edit: Well, it's kind of related, because apparently you can only bind to slots in with a web components target.

[arackaf]

@dummdidumm good to know - thank you kindly for replying. Is there currently any workaround, config or otherwise?

[dummdidumm]

I don't know if that would break other things in your code but you could wrap the slot with a div or another tag and bind on that.

<div bind:this={rootEl} class="root">
  <h1 class="x">Hi there BEFORE SLOT</h1>
  <div bind:this={s}>
    <slot name="s" />
  </div>
  <h1>Hi there AFTER SLOT</h1>
</div>

This is also the way you'd have to do it if you don't target web components, because slots cannot have directives for the normal dom target.

[arackaf]

@dummdidumm sadly that doesn't work in this case. Yeah I know slot directives are invalid for non-wc. Fortunately I can just ignore the false errors until there's a fix.

So I'm guessing there's no way to shut off certain Svelte errors in VS Code, like there is for warnings? Ie a11y-missing-attribute etc.

[dummdidumm]

There is not in this case because it's a crash/nullpointer while walking the AST, so unfortunately you'll have to live with it for the time being.

[arackaf]

@dummdidumm gotcha - thanks again for the info!

[arackaf]

@dummdidumm jesus that was fast - #804

I know it's not done yet but thanks a ton! Svelte team is amazing.