Do not remove install option - snowpack is getting worse and worse already

[tomaszkunicki]

It seems that you are going to create yet another Webpack clone.

Dev server is not always option. Think about non web server environments such as Electron (just an example no the case).
We use something else so install option is the only option we need. No HMR, no dev, no build.

If we want to create bundles, we do it with rollup as it gives us better control over bundling process.

Yes. I despise Webpack, babel and finally IE11. Disgusting stuff keeping people from using straight ESM modules.

I thought it was a purpose of Snowpack to get rid of that and I see now the only option is bundling and dev server.

It's so disappointing.

[FredKSchott]

esinstall is essentially a JS API for the original Snowpack (snowpack install). you can use it directly to create ESM bundles of JS packages like you could in the original Snowpack v1.0 days.

https://www.npmjs.com/package/esinstall

[bryanbraun]

Thanks for sharing this option.

I've been using it in a project and I did a quick write-up about how I set it up here: https://www.bryanbraun.com/2021/08/27/a-minimalist-development-workflow-using-es-modules-and-esinstall/