Is snowpack still maintained?

No — snowpack stopped being maintained around April 2022. snowpack's own maintainers named vite as the successor.

• successor named by the maintainers
• high confidence
• package successor

What should I use instead of snowpack?

snowpack's own maintainers named vite as the successor. vite is not a drop-in replacement, so expect to change call sites.

How to migrate from snowpack to vite

Vite offers the same unbundled-ESM dev server model: translate snowpack.config.js mount entries into Vite's root and publicDir, and replace Snowpack plugins with the equivalent Vite or Rollup plugins.

Why snowpack is on this list

Snowpack's README carries an April 2022 notice from the maintainers saying the project is no longer actively maintained and is not recommended for new projects. It names Vite as a well-maintained Snowpack alternative, with esbuild and Parcel as further options. The last release was 3.8.8 in August 2021.

The succession is settled: primary sources agree and the ecosystem has already moved.

snowpack alternatives

Beyond the primary recommendation, these are credible for snowpack's use case:

• esbuild — view on npm
• parcel — view on npm

Check your own project for snowpack

npx dead-deps --all --min-state unmaintained

Run that in the directory holding your lockfile. If snowpack is anywhere in your tree — a direct dependency or buried under something else — it appears in the report with this verdict, this successor and the same evidence links, alongside anything else that has stopped moving. Nothing is uploaded; the scan reads your lockfile locally and queries public registry metadata.

Exit code 1 means something was flagged, which makes npx dead-deps --min-state deprecated usable as a CI gate. See how verdicts are produced.

Evidence

Every claim on this page traces to a primary source. Check them:

• Snowpack README (April 2022): no longer actively maintained, recommends Vitegithub.com
• npm registry entry for snowpack showing 3.8.8 as the last release (August 2021)npmjs.com

Packages related to snowpack

• create-react-appSuccessor named by the maintainers: vite · unmaintained since February 2025
• parcel-bundlerRenamed package: parcel · unmaintained since March 2021
• babel-preset-es2015Successor named by the maintainers: @babel/preset-env · unmaintained since April 2017
• eslint-loaderSuccessor named by the maintainers: eslint-webpack-plugin · unmaintained since April 2020
• extract-text-webpack-pluginSuccessor named by the maintainers: mini-css-extract-plugin · unmaintained since…

See the full index of covered packages, or read the methodology for how a verdict is reached and why a quiet package is not a dead one.