snowpack VS JSONFeed

Once you build a simple Vite backend integration, try not to complicate Vite's configuration unless you absolutely must. Vite has become one of the most popular bundlers in the frontend space, but it wasn't the first and it certainly won't be the last. In my 7 years of building for the web, I've used Grunt, Gulp, Webpack, esbuild, and Parcel. Snowpack and Rome came-and-went before I ever had a chance to try them. Bun is vying for the spot of The New Hotness in bundling, Rome has been forked into Biome, and Vercel is building a Rust-based Webpack alternative.

Additional features for Bun include a transpiler and package manager. As hinted at in the name, it also includes bundling features, giving you the functionality that would otherwise require another tool, such as Snowpack or rollup.js. It also has a dead code elimination feature through its JavaScript minifier.

Even, there are several bundling tools available, including popular ones like Webpack and Snowpack.

once upon a time there was this thing called Snowpack: https://www.snowpack.devwhich had a lot of promises as vite (rollup w/ esm). So I migrated a project over from CRA to this thing.While startup speed was much much faster, it actually didn't make the app useable. I timed it meticulously for both CRA and snowpack build and found that the TTI was almost identical. I am not claiming the same to be vite but it's possible and I don't have a large app to prove it..

Snowpack.

> special snowflake build toolchains

That reminds me, wasn't there a build tool called Snowflake?

Oh, it was called Snowpack [1]. And it's no longer being actively maintained. Yeesh.

[1]: https://www.snowpack.dev/

Snowpack app - a single HTML page with Snowpack configuration

The first thing we need is a JavaScript project for our app. We'll use Snowpack as our bundler. Open a terminal located in a directory for the project and type npx create-snowpack-app react-couchdb --template @snowpack/app-template-minimal. Snowpack will create a skeleton for our React application and install all dependencies. Once it's done doing its job, type cd react-couchdb to get into the newly created project directory. create-snowpack-app is very similar to create-react-app in how it sets-up your project, but it's a lot less intrusive (You don't even need to use eject at any point).

Snowpack appears to be no longer maintained.

Before you get too deep into Snowpack, be aware that they recommend using other tools now because it’s no longer maintained.

If you have a web feed, be it RSS or Atom or JSON Feed, help others discover it!

Imagine you have an RSS feed similar to this. The objective is to obtain that RSS feed, analyze the data it contains, and take action with it. RSS is an XML format, whereas JSON is arguably easier to work with than XML. While many APIs provide JSON results, RSS is less likely to receive them, despite their existence.

At least for now, Astro clearly falls short in this category. Its built-in ability to provide RSS feeds is rather limited, and it doesn’t yet enable JSON feeds at all.5 In the meantime, some users, including Yours Truly, have gotten around this by using the third-party feed package, which supports RSS and JSON feeds.6

want to also support JSON Feed?

-------- # Metadata comes from _data/metadata.json permalink: "{{ metadata.jsonfeed.path | url }}" eleventyExcludeFromCollections: true -------- { "version": "https://jsonfeed.org/version/1", "title": "{{ metadata.title }}", "home_page_url": "{{ metadata.url }}", "feed_url": "{{ metadata.jsonfeed.url }}", "description": "{{ metadata.description }}", "author": { "name": "{{ metadata.author.name }}", "url": "{{ metadata.author.url }}" }, "items": [ {%- for post in collections.posts | reverse %} {%- set absolutePostUrl %}{{ post.url | url | absoluteUrl(metadata.url) }}{% endset -%} { "id": "{{ absolutePostUrl }}", "url": "{{ absolutePostUrl }}", "title": "{{ post.data.title }}", "tags": [ {%- for tag in helpers.removeCollectionTags(post.data.tags) -%} "{{tag}}" {%- if not loop.last %}, {%- endif %} {%- endfor %}], "summary": "{{ post.data.description }}", "content_html": {% if post.templateContent %}{{ post.templateContent | dump | safe }}{% else %}""{% endif %}, "date_published": "{{ post.date | rssDate }}" } {%- if not loop.last -%} , {%- endif -%} {%- endfor %} ] }

Your wish is my command.