vite

[mbostock]

A significant reduction in dependencies, and whereas snowpack is no longer under active development, vite is.

Ref. https://dev.to/fredkschott/5-more-things-i-learned-building-snowpack-to-20-000-stars-5dc9

To be honest, I'm not sure where Snowpack goes from here. I burnt out on it at the end of last year, and haven't found the energy to return. Usage and downloads began to trend down and the community has gotten quieter.

At the same time, Vite (that Snowpack alternative that now powers SvelteKit) is taking off. To their credit, they do a lot of things really well. The good news is that two tools are very similar and easy to switch out. Even Astro is experimenting with moving from Snowpack to Vite in a future release.

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After: