Snowpack Alternatives

Snowpack reviews and mentions

• How to replace webpack & babel with Vite on a legacy React Typescript project
  11 projects | dev.to | 25 Mar 2022

  Then there was Webpack which seemed like it would be around for a while. Even after things like Parcel and Snowpack came on the scene people still recommended Webpack. I mean, it's still the backbone of create-react-app. An then, Vite was released.

• State of the Web: Bundlers & Build Tools
  17 projects | dev.to | 23 Jan 2022

  Unbundled development utilizes native ESM support in browsers to offer an ultra-fast development experience. Unlike a traditional bundler which bundles everything in development, unbundled development transforms the code and rewrites import paths to the ESM compliant file path without bundling your code. Additionally, most bundlers that do this pre-bundle dependencies because that decreases the number of imports needed, and dependencies are unlikely to change often. The two most prominent bundlers that utilize unbundled development are Vite and Snowpack. Snowpack, created in 2019, was the first bundler to have an unbundled development experience. However, while Snowpack was popular for some time, this did not last forever. In 2020, the team behind Vue created Vite. Vite has many advantages over Snowpack, like the ease of use, speed, better optimization, and more. Additionally, popular projects like SvelteKit adopted Vite instead of Snowpack. All of this helped Vite pass Snowpack in downloads, and it now has more than 10x downloads compared to Snowpack. In fact, even Astro, a project created by the team behind Snowpack (be on the lookout for an article about Astro), is now using Vite. Overall, if you want fast, unbundled development, I recommend Vite.

• What are the new and exciting tech for React projects for 2022?
  16 projects | /r/reactjs | 5 Jan 2022

  I've been hearing good things about snowpack and have been wanting to give it a go myself as an alternative to webpack/babel

• Converting to Vite (Part 1)
  4 projects | dev.to | 5 Jan 2022

  So how did we get here? Well, it's a good thing to describe alternatives considered when you add issues to a repo! Months ago, @0vortex described in Issue #1131 some opportunities for dependency updates that would require version 5 of webpack with our webpack configuration, and warned that the dependency management would probably be tricky. I fixated on an alternative that he mentioned about converting the project to use Snowpack. I had wanted to learn more about bundling tools, so I took a few days here and there after Thanksgiving and got Open Sauced mostly working with it (see PR #1320).

• npx create-react-app not working -- everything is deprecated
  5 projects | /r/react | 11 Dec 2021
• React 101: The Basics
  12 projects | dev.to | 30 Nov 2021

  I have written a post about setting up a React project using Parcel as a bundler which can give a more detailed walkthrough about getting a React application up and running from scratch. There are multiple ways to do this but some of the more common build tools include Webpack, Parcel, and Snowpack.

• SolidJS on Snowpack – Quick Dev Guide
  2 projects | dev.to | 17 Nov 2021

  For more information about this issue, check these issue tickets: Issue 2998, Issue 3219, Issue 3243

• Etsy’s Journey to TypeScript
  6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 16 Nov 2021
• Build your own component library with Svelte
  10 projects | dev.to | 9 Nov 2021

  SvelteKit uses Vite under the hood, which is quite surprising, as Sapper and most tools are developed using Snowpack. Vite 2 is framework-agnostic and designed with SSR at its core.

• Angular Is Rotten to the Core
  9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 4 Nov 2021

  I've had some success with npm, snowpack, mocha, typescript as that sort of stack for more "vanilla" efforts that feel rather more "modern". I think mocha is easier and cleaner than jest. I like keeping all of my transpilation to just Typescript without needing a massive Babel install/pipeline. snowpack (https://www.snowpack.dev/) right now I think is in a sweet spot of a better "ES Module native" developer experience than webpack and has better defaults when left unconfigured. (So much so that while there are snowpack templates/generators provided by the project I mostly don't use them other than for reference.)

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