Get Started

Quick start

npx create-snowpack-app new-dir --template @snowpack/app-template-blank
cd new-dir
npm start

This uses our create-snowpack-app template to spin up a working Snowpack app. For a list of other templates available check out the create-snowpack-app docs.

Basic commands

Here’s a short list of what you can do with Snowpack:

# Start your dev server, load your site locally
snowpack dev

# Build your site for production
snowpack build

# Build your site, but watch the file system and rebuild when files change.
# Great for local development with your own dev server (ex: Rails)
snowpack build --watch

# See more helpful info
snowpack --help

Install Snowpack from scratch

# using npm
npm install --save-dev snowpack

# using yarn
yarn add --dev snowpack

Snowpack can also be installed globally via npm install -g snowpack. But, we recommend installing locally in every project via --save-dev/--dev. You can run the Snowpack CLI locally via package.json “scripts”, npm’s npx snowpack, or via yarn snowpack.