Validate session cookies in SvelteKit

SvelteKit has basic CSRF protection by default. We recommend creating a handle hook to validate requests and store the current user inside locals. You can get the cookie name with Lucia.sessionCookieName and validate the session cookie with Lucia.validateSession(). Make sure to delete the session cookie if it's invalid and create a new session cookie when the expiration gets extended, which is indicated by Session.fresh.

// src/hooks.server.ts
import { lucia } from "$lib/server/auth";

import type { Handle } from "@sveltejs/kit";

export const handle: Handle = async ({ event, resolve }) => {
	const sessionId = event.cookies.get(lucia.sessionCookieName);
	if (!sessionId) {
		event.locals.user = null;
		event.locals.session = null;
		return resolve(event);
	}

	const { session, user } = await lucia.validateSession(sessionId);
	if (session && session.fresh) {
		const sessionCookie = lucia.createSessionCookie(session.id);
		event.cookies.set(sessionCookie.name, sessionCookie.value, {
			path: ".",
			...sessionCookie.attributes
		});
	}
	if (!session) {
		const sessionCookie = lucia.createBlankSessionCookie();
		event.cookies.set(sessionCookie.name, sessionCookie.value, {
			path: ".",
			...sessionCookie.attributes
		});
	}
	event.locals.user = user;
	event.locals.session = session;
	return resolve(event);
};

Make sure to type App.Locals as well.

// src/app.d.ts
declare global {
	namespace App {
		interface Locals {
			user: import("lucia").User;
			session: import("lucia").Session;
		}
	}
}

This will allow you to access the current user inside server load functions, actions, and API routes.

// +page.server.ts
import { lucia } from "$lib/server/auth";
import { fail, redirect } from "@sveltejs/kit";

import type { Actions, PageServerLoad } from "./$types";

export const load: PageServerLoad = async (event) => {
	if (!event.locals.user) {
		redirect("/login");
	}
	// ...
};

export const actions: Actions = {
	default: async (event) => {
		if (!event.locals.user) {
			throw fail(401);
		}
		// ...
	}
};

// +server.ts
import { lucia } from "$lib/server/auth";

export function GET(event: RequestEvent): Promise<Response> {
	if (!event.locals.user) {
		return new Response(null, {
			status: 401
		});
	}
	// ...
}