SvelteKit + Cloudflare Workers #

How to add contrail to an existing SvelteKit project deployed on Cloudflare Workers (via @sveltejs/adapter-cloudflare). Gives you XRPC endpoints alongside your pages, Jetstream ingestion on cron, and a typed in-process client for server loaders.

Assumes you already have a SvelteKit app with @sveltejs/adapter-cloudflare and a D1 binding. If you don't, apps/sveltekit-cloudflare-workers is a complete starting point.

Install #

pnpm add @atmo-dev/contrail @atcute/client

Project layout #

src/
  lib/
    contrail.config.ts       # your config — auto-detected by the CLI
    contrail/
      index.ts               # Contrail instance + ensureInit + server client
  routes/
    xrpc/[...path]/+server.ts   # mounts all contrail XRPC endpoints
    api/cron/+server.ts         # hit by the cron trigger (see below)
wrangler.jsonc

1. Declare the config #

// src/lib/contrail.config.ts
import type { ContrailConfig } from "@atmo-dev/contrail";

export const config: ContrailConfig = {
  namespace: "com.example",
  collections: {
    event: {
      collection: "community.lexicon.calendar.event",
      queryable: { startsAt: { type: "range" } },
      searchable: ["name", "description"],
    },
  },
};

2. The Contrail instance #

// src/lib/contrail/index.ts
import { Contrail } from "@atmo-dev/contrail";
import { createHandler, createServerClient } from "@atmo-dev/contrail/server";
import type { Client } from "@atcute/client";
import { config } from "../contrail.config";

export const contrail = new Contrail(config);

let initialized = false;
export async function ensureInit(db: D1Database) {
  if (!initialized) { await contrail.init(db); initialized = true; }
}

const handle = createHandler(contrail);

/** In-process XRPC client for loaders and actions. */
export function getServerClient(db: D1Database): Client {
  return createServerClient(async (req) => {
    await ensureInit(db);
    return handle(req, db) as Promise<Response>;
  });
}

Why the lazy ensureInit: Workers cold-start many times; doing schema init on the first request keeps the boot path fast and means contrail.init() doesn't need top-level await (which the adapter doesn't love).

3. Mount the XRPC routes #

One catch-all that forwards to contrail's handler:

// src/routes/xrpc/[...path]/+server.ts
import type { RequestHandler } from "./$types";
import { createHandler } from "@atmo-dev/contrail/server";
import { contrail, ensureInit } from "$lib/contrail";

const handle = createHandler(contrail);

async function h(req: Request, platform: App.Platform | undefined) {
  const db = platform!.env.DB;
  await ensureInit(db);
  return handle(req, db) as Promise<Response>;
}

export const GET: RequestHandler  = ({ request, platform }) => h(request, platform);
export const POST: RequestHandler = ({ request, platform }) => h(request, platform);

Now every com.example.*.listRecords / com.example.*.getRecord / com.example.notifyOfUpdate / etc. is served under /xrpc/....

4. Using the typed client in loaders #

// src/routes/+page.server.ts
import { getServerClient } from "$lib/contrail";
import type { PageServerLoad } from "./$types";

export const load: PageServerLoad = async ({ platform }) => {
  const rpc = getServerClient(platform!.env.DB);
  const res = await rpc.get("com.example.event.listRecords", {
    params: { startsAtMin: "2026-01-01", limit: 20 },
  });
  return { events: res.ok ? res.data.records : [] };
};

createServerClient bypasses the network — the loader runs Contrail's public XRPC handler in-process.

5. Cron ingest — the workaround #

SvelteKit's @sveltejs/adapter-cloudflare doesn't expose a scheduled() export on the generated worker (issue #4841). The fix is an HTTP endpoint that does the ingest, plus a post-build patch on _worker.js that appends a scheduled handler calling it. The patch is what contrail append-scheduled does.

Endpoint:

// src/routes/api/cron/+server.ts
import type { RequestHandler } from "./$types";
import { contrail, ensureInit } from "$lib/contrail";

export const POST: RequestHandler = async ({ request, platform }) => {
  if (request.headers.get("X-Cron-Secret") !== platform!.env.CRON_SECRET) {
    return new Response("Unauthorized", { status: 401 });
  }
  const db = platform!.env.DB;
  await ensureInit(db);
  await contrail.ingest({}, db);
  return new Response("OK");
};

Wire contrail append-scheduled into your build script:

// package.json
"scripts": {
  "build": "vite build && contrail append-scheduled"
}

contrail append-scheduled patches .svelte-kit/cloudflare/_worker.js to append a scheduled() export that POSTs to /api/cron with env.CRON_SECRET. Override with --worker <path>, --cron-path <path>, or --secret-env <name> if your project diverges.

CRON_SECRET is any random string — generate one, set it as a secret with wrangler secret put CRON_SECRET. The cron handler self-auths with it so nobody external can trigger your ingest.

6. Wrangler config #

// wrangler.jsonc
{
  "main": ".svelte-kit/cloudflare/_worker.js",
  "compatibility_date": "2025-12-25",
  "compatibility_flags": ["nodejs_compat_v2"],
  "assets": { "binding": "ASSETS", "directory": ".svelte-kit/cloudflare" },
  "d1_databases": [
    { "binding": "DB", "database_name": "yourapp", "database_id": "..." }
  ],
  "triggers": { "crons": ["*/1 * * * *"] }
}

Type the D1 binding in src/app.d.ts:

declare global {
  namespace App {
    interface Platform {
      env: {
        DB: D1Database;
        CRON_SECRET: string;
        // ...other bindings
      };
    }
  }
}

7. Deploy + backfill #

pnpm wrangler d1 create yourapp       # copy the id into wrangler.jsonc
pnpm build && pnpm wrangler deploy
pnpm wrangler secret put CRON_SECRET  # paste any random string
pnpm contrail backfill --remote      # one-time historical backfill

From now on:

• Pages and XRPC endpoints are served under your domain.
• The cron fires every minute, hitting /api/cron, which runs contrail.ingest().
• Loaders that need live data use getServerClient() for zero-overhead typed calls.
• After a short outage, ingestion resumes from its saved cursor. If source history has expired, rebuild into a fresh database with pnpm backfill:remote.

Where to go next #

• Indexing — config options, adapter choices
• Querying — filters, sorts, hydration, search
• Feeds — personalized timelines via follow + target collections
• Labels — moderation label hydration

Use Atcute directly for Lexicon pulling, validation, and TypeScript generation.

Common gotchas #

• Top-level await in $lib/contrail/index.ts will fail to bundle — use the lazy ensureInit pattern above.
• ensureInit is per-isolate, not global. Cloudflare cold-starts spin new isolates; each one pays one init call on its first request. contrail.init() is idempotent so this is safe, just not instant.
• SvelteKit's adapter-cloudflare regenerates _worker.js on every build, so contrail append-scheduled has to run after vite build. Don't try to put it in prebuild.
• D1Database type in platform env needs @cloudflare/workers-types in devDependencies and types in your tsconfig.