SvelteKit - Skeleton

Requirements

Tooling	Minimum Version
SvelteKit	2
Svelte	5
Tailwind	4

Installation

WARNING: The following guide will install a pre-release version of Skeleton v3. Some features may be missing, incomplete, or non-functional at this time. Please report bugs and issues on GitHub or Discord.

Create a Project

Use the Svete CLI to generate a new SvelteKit project.

npx sv create --template minimal --types ts my-skeleton-app
cd my-skeleton-app

NOTE: If you miss the prompt to install Tailwind, use npx sv add tailwindcss to add it retroactively.

Install Skeleton

Install the Skeleton core and Svelte component packages.

npm i -D @skeletonlabs/skeleton@next @skeletonlabs/skeleton-svelte@next

Configure Tailwind

Open your global stylesheet in /src/app/globals.css and add the following imports:

@import 'tailwindcss';

@import '@skeletonlabs/skeleton';
@import '@skeletonlabs/skeleton/optional/presets';
@import '@skeletonlabs/skeleton/themes/cerberus';

Set Active Theme

Open /src/app.html, then set the data-theme attribute on the HTML tag to define the active theme.

<html data-theme="cerberus">...</html>

Done

Start the dev server using the following command.

npm run dev