browserify VS amdjs-api

Browserify to use node packages in the browser.

Browserify is a widely used JavaScript bundler with over 2 million NPM weekly downloads. In addition to Node.js support, allowing developers to use require() statements in the browser is one of its highlighted features.

This began to change when NPM came in and running npm install became a quick and easy way to install dependencies. Browserify became the first JavaScript bundler. As its documentation says -

Using Npm Module with Browserify

https://www.npmjs.com/package/browserify probably a little old school, but browserify is probably good enough.

One problem was to run jsDOM as UMD module. But luckly I was able to use browserify to compile jsDOM into UMD.

Browserify

https://browserify.org/ is an easy one to get started with.

AMD (Asynchronous Module Definition), is a pattern to define and consume module. It is implemented by RequireJS library. AMD provides a define function to define module, which accepts the module name, dependent modules’ names, and a factory function:

AMD, which was introduced in 2010, uses define/require and loads modules asynchronously. RequireJS is the popular choice for using the AMD syntax in the browser.

A module format is the syntax we use to define a module. Different module formats such AMD, CommonJS, UMD and System.register have emerged in the past and a native module format is now available since ES6.