CHAPTER 6
Browserify
Less is more.
—Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Browserify is a JavaScript module loader that works around the language’s current lack of support for importing modules within the browser by serving as a “pre-processor” for your code. In much the same way that CSS extensions such as SASS and LESS have brought enhanced syntax support to stylesheets, Browserify enhances client-side JavaScript applications by recursively scanning their source code for calls to a global require() function. When Browserify finds such calls, it immediately loads the referenced modules (using the same require() function that is available within Node.js) ...
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