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Dev tools · June 14, 2019

Pika CDN

Introducing a CDN for modern JavaScript

Pika CDN launched on June 14, 2019 with 5 votes, #1,123 of 2,757 launches that month. The site was still online in September 2026, 7 years on.

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What it does

The Pika CDN was built to serve the 60,000+ npm packages written in ES Module (ESM) syntax. This module syntax runs natively in the browser, so you can build for the web without a bundler.

The Pika CDN has a new home: skypack.dev

Since launching in June 2019, Pika CDN has served over 2 million packages across thousands of unique domains. Our CDN is the best on the planet for modern JS, letting you load any npm package directly in the browser via a standard ESM interface. Skypack is our new name for the Pika CDN. It's the same great CDN made faster, more stable, and with a bunch of new improvements that weren't available in the original. Visit www.skypack.dev to learn more and get started. Because Skypack is a drop in replacement for Pika CDN, migrating to Skypack was designed to be painless. Any Pika CDN URL will continue to work with Skypack. See Skypack documentation for more information on the API. We understand…from pika.dev

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