Replacing Create-React-App With Snowpack

Cheri Hung
JavaScript in Plain English
7 min readMar 7, 2021

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Setting up build tools and bundlers is a critical part of any front-end developer’s workflow. But often, it feels more like a blocker to the real fun of development. While the latest Webpack requires far less work to get started than before, it is still far from meeting all the needs right out of the box.

Recently, I started using Snowpack as a front-end bundler. I first heard of it at the 2020 JavaScript OpenSource Conference where Snowpack got the Productivity Booster award. I’ve used it now on an enterprise project with great ease. And converted my personal…

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