Returning non-200 status from `load` in `__layout.svelte` causes a `Uncaught (in Promise) Error`

[poppa]

Describe the bug

Returning a non-200 status from load in __layout.svelte in a Svelte-Kit app results in an uncaught promise error.

It seems to me said function is called recursively when returning a non-200 status. If you track the number of calls and return 200 after the first call to load everything seems to be fine.

Reproduction

https://github.com/poppa/svelte-kit-uncaught-in-promise-sample

Logs

__layout.svelte? [sm]:26 Uncaught (in promise) Error: Authentication Required
    at load (__layout.svelte? [sm]:26:14)
    at load_node (start.js:946:37)
    at Object._hydrate (start.js:1575:25)
    at async start (start.js:1676:3)

System Info

System:
    OS: macOS 11.6
    CPU: (16) x64 Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-9880H CPU @ 2.30GHz
    Memory: 53.85 MB / 32.00 GB
    Shell: 3.3.1 - /usr/local/bin/fish
  Binaries:
    Node: 16.13.0 - /usr/local/bin/node
    Yarn: 1.22.4 - /usr/local/bin/yarn
    npm: 8.1.0 - /usr/local/bin/npm
  Browsers:
    Brave Browser: 101.1.38.111
    Chrome: 101.0.4951.54
    Firefox: 98.0.1
    Safari: 15.0
  npmPackages:
    @sveltejs/adapter-auto: next => 1.0.0-next.40 
    @sveltejs/kit: next => 1.0.0-next.324 
    svelte: ^3.44.0 => 3.48.0

Severity

serious, but I can work around it

Additional Information

You guys are doing a great job, and Svelte and Svelte-Kit is just awesome.

[elliott-with-the-longest-name-on-github]

Okay, I've been toying with this and I just want to provide some observations.

It appears that the current behavior of non-root __error.svelte and __layout.svelte files is a little confusing. Let's say I have the following folder structure:

.
└── src/
└── routes/
├── test/
│ ├── __error.svelte
│ ├── __layout.svelte
│ └── index.svelte
├── __layout.svelte
└── index.svelte

If an error occurs in the load for /src/routes/test/__layout.svelte, the default SvelteKit error page is displayed. If it occurs in the load for /src/routes/test/index.svelte, the neighboring /src/routes/test/__error.svelte is rendered. Based on what the docs say, this is intended behavior:

For example, if src/routes/settings/notifications/index.svelte failed to load, SvelteKit would render src/routes/settings/notifications/__error.svelte in the same layout, if it existed. If not, it would render src/routes/settings/__error.svelte in the parent layout, or src/routes/__error.svelte in the root layout.

"In the x layout" says to me that the layout has to have finished loading (otherwise, how would you render inside of it)?

With that behavior explained, this bug makes a lot of sense. Of course src/routes/__layout.svelte is being called recursively. By the definitions in the documentation, the root __error.svelte shouldn't ever be able to catch its errors, because the root __error.svelte tries to render "in the root layout". Yuck.

I can think of two solutions:

1. If src/routes/__layout.svelte fails to load the first time, render src/routes/__error.svelte by itself, outside of the layout.
2. Default to a SvelteKit-provided "catastrophic failure" page?

However, I could also see 1 being a security vulnerability or a "gotcha" for new developers. For example, I check authentication status in session from the load of my root __layout.svelte to decide what content to display. If that failed, I probably wouldn't want my __error.svelte to break out of my __layout.svelte... we'd have to make sure that __layout.svelte's load did run again on client-side navigation to any other route.

[poppa]

Thanks for a quick reply 👍

Personally I'm not a fan at all of the error page being rendered inside the main layout. In my world __error.svelte should be its own totally separate layout file, but that's just my opinion.

I personally just didn't expect __error.svelte to issue a call to load in __layout.svelte (which seems to be the case) since it was said function that issued the render of __error.svelte in the first place.

Anyhow, keep up the good work 🥇

[Rich-Harris]

Since it's now possible to render an error page outside the 'main' layout by moving your routes inside a route group...

src/routes/
├ (main)
│ ├ foo/
│ ├ bar/
│ ├ etc/
│ ├ +layout.svelte # can safely throw errors in here
│ └ +page.svelte
├ +error.svelte   
└ +layout.svelte   # optional

...I'll close this issue