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browser-side require() the node.js way (by browserify)
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An extremely fast bundler for the web (by evanw)
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14,520 | 37,203 | |
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2.0 | 9.6 | |
about 1 month ago | 16 days ago | |
JavaScript | Go | |
MIT License | MIT License |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
browserify
Posts with mentions or reviews of browserify.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-01.
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How to Create a Real-time Public Transportation Schedule App
Browserify to use node packages in the browser.
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5 Different Tools to Bundle Node.js Apps
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.
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JavaScript Module Bundlers and all that Jazz ✨
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 -
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How to use any NPM module with Browserify in the browser
Using Npm Module with Browserify
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What stack would you use for building a landing page?
https://www.npmjs.com/package/browserify probably a little old school, but browserify is probably good enough.
- Node.js やReact、ESM、Viteの説明
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Hack to Run React Application inside Service Worker
One problem was to run jsDOM as UMD module. But luckly I was able to use browserify to compile jsDOM into UMD.
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Front-end Guide
Browserify
- How to serve my JS / node API client page?
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How to "import" modules in JS files and questions about best practices.
https://browserify.org/ is an easy one to get started with.
esbuild
Posts with mentions or reviews of esbuild.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-10.
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Use Notion as your CMS along with Next.js
During my search for deploying Lambdas via GitHub actions, I came across a tutorial that utilized ncc for converting TypeScript and bundling. While ncc is effective, I discovered esbuild, which proved to be significantly faster and perfectly suited to my requirements.
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⏰ It’s time to talk about Import Map, Micro Frontend, and Nx Monorepo
The advent of esbuild, the native support for ES Modules in browsers, the widespread adoption of import map, the emergence of tools like Native Federation, and the Nx ecosystem all combine to forge a flexible and well-maintained Micro Frontend Architecture.
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JS Toolbox 2024: Bundlers and Test Frameworks
EsBuild is a relatively new, blazing-fast JavaScript bundler and minifier. It stands out for its high performance, significantly speeding up the build process in development pipelines.
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Build a Vite 5 backend integration with Flask
Unlike Webpack, the Vite DevServer only compiles files when they are requested. It leverages ES module imports, which allow JS files to import other files without needing to bundle them together during development. When one file changes, only that file needs to be re-compiled, and the rest can remain unchanged. Project files are compiled with Rollup.js. Third-party dependencies in node_modules are pre-compiled using the ultra-fast esbuild bundler for maximum speed, and they are cached until the dependency version changes. Vite also provides a client script for hot module reloading.
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SSR React in Go
Use esbuild to build the React code into a form executable on both the server and client sides.
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Effortless Function as a Service: A Simple Guide to Implementing it with Query
The functions will bundle using esbuild. For that, it is required to install esbuild globally:
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How to run TypeScript natively in Node.js with TSX
TSX is the newest and most improved version of our ts-node, using ESBuild to transpile TS files to JS very quickly. The most interesting part is that TSX was developed to be a complete replacement for Node, so you can actually use TSX as a TypeScript REPL, if you install it globally with npm i -g tsx, just run tsx in your terminal and you can write TSX natively. But what's even cooler is that you can load TSX for all TypeScript files using --loader tsx when you run your file. For example, let's say we have this file called index.ts:
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Quick Summary of Angular 17
esbuild plus Vite is out of developer preview and enabled by default, yielding 67%, 87%, 80% speed improvements for build time, hybrid build time and hybrid serve time respectively.
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In-Depth guide for TypeScript Library
Bundling with esbuild
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11 Ways to Optimize Your Website
Besides Webpack, there are many other popular web bundlers available, such as Parcel, Esbuild, Rollup, and more. They all have their own unique features and strengths, and you should make your decision based on the needs and requirements of your specific project. Please refer to their official websites for details.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing browserify and esbuild you can also consider the following projects:
vite - Next generation frontend tooling. It's fast!
swc - Rust-based platform for the Web
Rollup - Next-generation ES module bundler
RequireJS - A file and module loader for JavaScript
webpack - A bundler for javascript and friends. Packs many modules into a few bundled assets. Code Splitting allows for loading parts of the application on demand. Through "loaders", modules can be CommonJs, AMD, ES6 modules, CSS, Images, JSON, Coffeescript, LESS, ... and your custom stuff.
parcel - The zero configuration build tool for the web. 📦🚀
HeadJS - The only script in your HEAD.
terser - 🗜 JavaScript parser, mangler and compressor toolkit for ES6+