HeadJS vs browserify

HeadJS

The only script in your HEAD. (by headjs)

Loaders

Source Code

headjs.github.io

Suggest alternative

Edit details

browserify

browser-side require() the node.js way (by browserify)

Loaders Bundler JavaScript module-bundler Commonjs Modules Browser

Source Code

browserify.org

Suggest alternative

Edit details

Our great sponsors

SurveyJS - Open-Source JSON Form Builder to Create Dynamic Forms Right in Your App

WorkOS - The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS

InfluxDB - Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale

Our great sponsors

HeadJS		browserify
	Project
-	Mentions	34
4,166	Stars	14,520
-0.0%	Growth	0.2%
2.9	Activity	2.0
12 months ago	Latest Commit	about 1 month ago
JavaScript	Language	JavaScript
MIT License	License	MIT License

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
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.

HeadJS

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

We haven't tracked posts mentioning HeadJS yet.
Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

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 HeadJS and browserify you can also consider the following projects:

RequireJS - A file and module loader for JavaScript

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

lazyload

esbuild - An extremely fast bundler for the web

script.js - Asyncronous JavaScript loader and dependency manager

Rollup - Next-generation ES module bundler

SeaJS - A Module Loader for the Web

systemjs - Dynamic ES module loader

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.

ESL - enterprise standard loader

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