The experimental features of Snowpack’s previous build are now official in v3 and are ready to be used in production. Check them out here.

Snowpack has been promoting an unbundled web development approach that removes the need for traditional JavaScript bundlers like Webpack and Parcel. Today, almost all of the major browsers have support for ESM unlike the past when we relied heavily on bundlers like Webpack. Even though things today have changed to an extent, a large portion of the developer community has not moved from the plain and old JavaScript bundlers.

Snowpack’s way of doing things has been quite productive and blazing fast. Snowpack only rebuilds the files where the changes have occurred, unlike the traditional builders where whole parts of an application are rebuilt and re-bundled. The bundling time for larger frontend projects with thousands of components used to take up to 30 seconds but with Snowpack, this time has reduced to below 50 ms. This January, Snowpack version 3 launched which takes things to the next level.

The experimental features of the previous build are now official and ready to be used in the production. In this blog, you will see the new features in action. So let’s get started!

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