Install Snowpack

npm

npm install --save-dev snowpack

yarn

yarn add --dev snowpack

pnpm

pnpm add --save-dev snowpack

Run the Snowpack CLI

Popular package managers support running installed packages via CLI. This prevents you from having to install the package globally just to run it yourself.

npx snowpack [command]
yarn run snowpack [command]
pnpm run snowpack [command]

Throughout our documentation, we’ll use snowpack [command] to document the CLI. To run this yourself, add the npx/yarn run/pnpm run prefix of the package manager that you used to install Snowpack.

Serve your project locally

snowpack dev

This starts the local dev server for development. By default this serves your current working directory to the browser, and will look for an index.html file to start. You can customize which directories you want to serve via the “mount” configuration.

Build your project

snowpack build

This builds your project into a static build/ directory that you can deploy anywhere. You can customize your build via configuration.

See all options

snowpack --help

The --help flag will display helpful output.