create-index vs browserify

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create-index		browserify
	Project
1	Mentions	34
278	Stars	14,527
-	Growth	0.1%
0.0	Activity	2.0
about 1 year ago	Latest Commit	about 2 months ago
JavaScript	Language	JavaScript
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later	License	MIT License

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create-index

Posts with mentions or reviews of create-index. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

Folder Structure of a React Project
1 project | dev.to | 22 Jul 2022

An interesting tool for automating index creation is create-index. I haven't tested yet, but I will give it a try.

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.

How to Create a Real-time Public Transportation Schedule App
4 projects | dev.to | 1 Mar 2024

Browserify to use node packages in the browser.
5 Different Tools to Bundle Node.js Apps
8 projects | dev.to | 13 Jun 2023

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.
JavaScript Module Bundlers and all that Jazz ✨
6 projects | dev.to | 26 Mar 2023

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 -
How to use any NPM module with Browserify in the browser
1 project | dev.to | 25 Jan 2023

Using Npm Module with Browserify
What stack would you use for building a landing page?
4 projects | /r/webdev | 24 Jan 2023

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
7 projects | dev.to | 21 Jan 2023
Hack to Run React Application inside Service Worker
5 projects | dev.to | 5 Jan 2023

One problem was to run jsDOM as UMD module. But luckly I was able to use browserify to compile jsDOM into UMD.
Front-end Guide
54 projects | dev.to | 23 Nov 2022

Browserify
How to serve my JS / node API client page?
1 project | /r/learnprogramming | 20 Nov 2022
How to "import" modules in JS files and questions about best practices.
1 project | /r/learnjavascript | 17 Nov 2022

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

What are some alternatives?

When comparing create-index and browserify you can also consider the following projects:

parcel - The zero configuration build tool for the web. 📦🚀

vite - Next generation frontend tooling. It's fast!

ygor - Task toolkit. For when `npm run` isn't enough and everything else is too much.

esbuild - An extremely fast bundler for the web

pkg - Package your Node.js project into an executable

Rollup - Next-generation ES module bundler

gulp - A toolkit to automate & enhance your workflow

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.

FuseBox - A blazing fast js bundler/loader with a comprehensive API :fire: