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PostHog error tracking for Svelte

Web Dev

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# PostHog error tracking for Svelte

This skill helps you add PostHog error tracking to Svelte applications.

## Reference files

- `references/svelte.md` - Sveltekit error tracking installation - docs
- `references/fingerprints.md` - Fingerprints - docs
- `references/alerts.md` - Send error tracking alerts - docs
- `references/monitoring.md` - Monitor and search issues - docs
- `references/assigning-issues.md` - Assign issues to teammates - docs
- `references/upload-source-maps.md` - Upload source maps - docs

Consult the documentation for API details and framework-specific patterns.

## Key principles

- **Environment variables**: Always use environment variables for PostHog keys and host URLs. Never hardcode them.
- **Minimal changes**: Add error tracking alongside existing error handling. Don't replace or restructure existing error handling code.
- **Autocapture first**: Enable exception autocapture in the SDK initialization before adding manual captures.
- **Source maps**: Upload source maps so stack traces resolve to original source code, not minified bundles.
- **Manual capture for boundaries**: Use `captureException()` at error boundaries and catch blocks for errors that don't propagate to the global handler.

## Framework guidelines

- Set paths.relative to false in svelte.config.js — this is required for PostHog session replay to work correctly with SSR and is easy to miss
- Use the Svelte MCP server tools to check Svelte documentation (list-sections, get-documentation) and validate components (svelte-autofixer) — always run svelte-autofixer on new or modified .svelte files before finishing

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