Not quite sure how to use this?

[sebszocinski]

Hey i'm new to Snowpack and just playing around but I always code in pug so I want to get this working first but I'm a little confused coming from Webpack.

I have a src folder with an index.pug file and then a public folder which I assumed would build an index.html file into public when I run snowpack dev but this doesn't seem to be the case?

Can you provide some better instructions in the docs.

[marlonmarcello]

Hey there!
I recommend you read the snowpack docs and go through their Getting started section so you can better understand how the folder structure works, by default there is no src/ folder in snowpack.

After that all you need to do is install this plugin and use pug instead of html.

[etjones]

Thanks for this plugin, Marlon. I had a similar problem to @sebszocinski and it took me a while to figure out what the disconnect was. I used create-snowpack-app to set up my projects, which puts javascript/typescript in a /src directory and html in a /public directory.

By default, the /public directory is set up as static, so Pug files there won't be compiled to HTML files. The solution was to change the /public directory to not be static in snowpack.config.js; then the Pug gets compiled to HTML.

That section of snowpack.config.js goes from:

  mount: {
    public: { url: '/', static: true },
    src: { url: '/dist' },
  }

to:

  mount: {
    public: { url: '/', static: false },
    src: { url: '/dist' },
  }

With luck, anyone else who runs into this problem will find this info.

[marlonmarcello]

My bad guys, I honestly never used create-snowpack-app. I've only used the basic set up which is pretty much the same one they have on their tutorial.
Thanks for leaving the comment @etjones !

[marlonmarcello]

I am going to update the readme with a reference to your comment.

[etjones]

Awesome. That should make things easier for some people.
The Snowpack Quick Start section doesn't talk about create-snowpack-app, although it used to. TBH, I don't think I ever would have started using Snowpack if I'd just seen the current Quick Start; way too much manual setup of all the bits and pieces.