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Svelte 5 Runes: Debugging Stale UI When $derived State Fails to Update

  If you are migrating from Svelte 4 to Svelte 5, you have likely encountered the "Silent Failure." You update a value, your event handler logs the correct new data to the console, but the DOM remains stubbornly frozen. The   $derived   rune—the successor to the reactive label   $:  —is not recalculating. This usually stems from two fundamental misunderstandings of the new Signal-based architecture: Broken Reactivity Chains:  Passing raw JavaScript objects (references) into components where Svelte expects Proxies. The Side-Effect Fallacy:  Treating  $derived  as an event hook rather than a pure mathematical derivation. Here is how to diagnose and fix these "broken" signals. The Hook: Why  $derived  Stops Listening In Svelte 4, reactivity was compiled. Svelte looked at your code, saw  foo = bar + 1 , and injected code to update  foo  whenever  bar  was invalidated. In Svelte 5, reactivity is runtime-based usi...