Explain Readme better

[frederikhors]

I'm new to Snowpack (today is the first time I heard it).

I know and love Svelte but on this Readme I saw:

For the best production performance: Add a build bundler plugin like "@snowpack/plugin-webpack" or "@snowpack/plugin-parcel" to your snowpack.config.json config file.

Can you please explain this better?

What do you mean?

Is this working right now?

What does mean best production performance?

UPDATE

I'm referring to: https://github.com/pikapkg/snowpack/tree/master/packages/@snowpack/app-template-svelte-typescript

[drwpow]

Good question—we could definitely elaborate more in the README.

The background here is that we’re still in the “age of bundlers” where webpack powers most JS development these days. webpack has a maturity an ecosystem that Snowpack doesn’t right now.

What we’d like to say, and what we’d like to communicate is that Snowpack doesn’t need anything else. Snowpack has a decent performance story out-of-the-box today, but we have more optimizations planned. And we can’t say “Snowpack is optimized for everyone now” because that isn’t true. Bundling will never be a concern for Snowpack, and there may be some scenarios where you want to bundle.

But we are saying that if you have a finely-tuned webpack setup already, you don’t have to throw that away to use Snowpack. In other words, if you’re not using a bundler right now and want to try Snowpack, only try Snowpack and don’t worry about a bundler! And we’d love to hear your feedback on how the current Snowpack perf story works for you.