Snowpack for Microfrontend Apps

[jcschmidig]

I am currently developing a microfrontend application with a root app and several client apps. To build the client apps, I use the below configuration (webpack.config.js).
Now, I am asking myself if one could simplify this config by using Snowpack without an explicit bundler?

Two points are essential:

• It should output one single file
• The output type should be 'system' (see output.libraryTarget)

I couldn't find in the documentation a hint how to do this with the current version of Snowpack.
Am I right? And if yes, would that be something Snowpack might be supporting in the future?
Thanks for listening!

My current webpack.config.js

const path = require('path');
const webpack = require('webpack');
const { CleanWebpackPlugin } = require('clean-webpack-plugin');

module.exports = {
  entry: path.resolve(__dirname,'src/index.js'),
  output: {
    path: path.resolve(__dirname, 'dist'),
    filename: 'index.js',
    libraryTarget: 'system'
  },
  module: {
    rules: [
      {
        test: /\.svelte?$/,
        exclude: [path.resolve(__dirname, 'node_modules')],
        loader: ['svelte-loader'],
        parser: { system: false }
      }
    ]
  },
  plugins: [
    new CleanWebpackPlugin({
      cleanAfterEveryBuildPatterns: ['dist'],
    }),
    new webpack.optimize.LimitChunkCountPlugin({
      maxChunks: 1,
    }),
  ],
  externals: [],
  devServer: {
    historyApiFallback: true,
    writeToDisk: true,
    port: 3001,
    headers: {
        'Access-Control-Allow-Origin': '*'
    },
    disableHostCheck: true
  }
}

[FredKSchott]

Interesting! Conceptually I don't think there's anything stopping you, just use Snowpack "@snowpack/plugin-svelte" and "@snowpack/plugin-webpack".

In the readme for our webpack plugin, you can find documentation on a hook to configure the webpack config object directly.

[jcschmidig]

What would be the advantage using snowpack as you mentioned it compared to my current approach using only webpack?

[FredKSchott]

Snowpack is a faster dev environment & easier to configure frontend build tool. If that's something you're interested in, give it a try!