Browserify
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CommentsWhat is Browserify?
Browserify lets you require('modules') in the browser by bundling up all of your dependencies.
Browserify is a tool in the Build Automation category of a tech stack.
Key Features
Use a node-style require() to organize your browser code and load modules installed by npm.browserify will recursively analyze all the require() calls in your app in order to build a bundle you can serve up to the browser in a single script tag.
Browserify Pros & Cons
Pros of Browserify
- ✓Node style browser code
- ✓Load modules installed by npm
- ✓Works great with gulp.js
- ✓NPM modules in the brower
- ✓Open source
- ✓Node streams
- ✓Easy setup
Cons of Browserify
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Browserify Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Browserify?
npm
npm is the command-line interface to the npm ecosystem. It is battle-tested, surprisingly flexible, and used by hundreds of thousands of JavaScript developers every day.
Yarn
Yarn caches every package it downloads so it never needs to again. It also parallelizes operations to maximize resource utilization so install times are faster than ever.
RequireJS
RequireJS loads plain JavaScript files as well as more defined modules. It is optimized for in-browser use, including in a Web Worker, but it can be used in other JavaScript environments, like Rhino and Node. It implements the Asynchronous Module API. Using a modular script loader like RequireJS will improve the speed and quality of your code.
