Legacy Bundle Snowpack Plugin

This is a Snowpack plugin that provides a dead simple way to add a legacy bundle and implement differential serving for browsers that don't support modules.

It transpiles code and adds basic Pollyfills with Babel and uses Rollup to build a legacy bundle. By loading the bundle with <script nomodule ..., the bundle is only used in older browsers and the everybody else gets all the benefits and speed of ES modules and bundler-free experience Snowpack offers. Works with CJS modules, too.

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Setup

Setup is super simple. First install: npm install --dev legacy-bundle-snowpack-plugin or yarn add --dev legacy-bundle-snowpack-plugin

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Add a script file for your legacy code and add imports for your entry point and any non-Babel pollyfills you want to add:

src/scripts/legacy.js

// Legacy

@import index.js
@import { somePoly } from 'polyfill'

...

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Add the plugin to your Snowpack config: snowpack.config.js

...
  plugins: [
    'legacy-bundle-snowpack-plugin',
...

Or with one of the options. filePath is relative to the build directory and defaults to 'scripts/legacy.js' which is build/scripts/legacy.js and built from src/scripts/legacy.js in my setup.

...
  plugins: [
    [ 'legacy-bundle-snowpack-plugin',
      { 
        filePath: 'scripts/legacy.js', 
        babelConfig: { ... } 
      }
    ]
  ]
...

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Finally, just add it to your index.html under your main script. Make sure to load the normal/modern version with type=module and this one as nomodule (just the attribute)

...
    <script type="module" src="/scripts/main.js"></script>
    <script nomodule src="/scripts/legacy.js"></script>
  </body>
</html>

Now run build and the output of legacy.js should be an old-school bundle. That's it.

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