Browserify vs Browserify-CDN vs npm

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Pros of Browserify
Pros of Browserify-CDN
Pros of npm
  • 75
    Node style browser code
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    Load modules installed by npm
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    Works great with gulp.js
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    NPM modules in the brower
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    Open source
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    Node streams
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    Easy setup
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    • 647
      Best package management system for javascript
    • 382
      Open-source
    • 327
      Great community
    • 148
      More packages than rubygems, pypi, or packagist
    • 112
      Nice people matter
    • 6
      As fast as yarn but really free of facebook
    • 6
      Audit feature
    • 4
      Good following
    • 1
      Super fast
    • 1
      Stability

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    Cons of Browserify
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        • 5
          Problems with lockfiles
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          Bad at package versioning and being deterministic
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          Node-gyp takes forever
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          Super slow

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        What is Browserify?

        Browserify lets you require('modules') in the browser by bundling up all of your dependencies.

        What is Browserify-CDN?

        Browsers don't have the require method defined, but Node.js does. With Browserify you can write code that uses require in the same way that you would use it in Node.

        What is 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.

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            What are some alternatives to Browserify, Browserify-CDN, and npm?
            Bower
            Bower is a package manager for the web. It offers a generic, unopinionated solution to the problem of front-end package management, while exposing the package dependency model via an API that can be consumed by a more opinionated build stack. There are no system wide dependencies, no dependencies are shared between different apps, and the dependency tree is flat.
            Webpack
            A bundler for javascript and friends. Packs many modules into a few bundled assets. Code Splitting allows to load parts for the application on demand. Through "loaders" modules can be CommonJs, AMD, ES6 modules, CSS, Images, JSON, Coffeescript, LESS, ... and your custom stuff.
            Babel
            Babel will turn your ES6+ code into ES5 friendly code, so you can start using it right now without waiting for browser support.
            rollup
            It is a module bundler for JavaScript which compiles small pieces of code into something larger and more complex, such as a library or application. It uses the new standardized format for code modules included in the ES6 revision of JavaScript, instead of previous idiosyncratic solutions such as CommonJS and AMD.
            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.
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