module system styles

• <script> tags
  • easy to use for a limited number of dependencies
  • brittle
  • used in:
    • all your projects so far
    • the internet
• CommonJS pattern
  • node/npm use this
  • simple and easy to use
  • designed for server-side
  • synchronous, so require('../some/file') has to complete before continuing
  • used in:
    • node.js
    • browserify
• AMD (Asynchronous Module Definition)
  • designed for client-side
  • asynchronous, so modules can be loaded in parallel
  • verbose, and hard to read
  • used in:
    • require.js
• ES6 modules
  • native JS implementation, not a workaround
  • easy to understand, very similar to other languages such as Python
  • not well supported in browsers yet
  • used in:
    • ??
    • Ember
    • React

Webpack

https://webpack.github.io/

Install:

npm install -g webpack

Use:

webpack app.js webpacked.js

For production:

webpack app.js webpacked.js -p

Browserify

http://browserify.org/

Install:

npm install -g browserify

Use:

browserify app.js -o browserified.js

Gulp

My preference:

https://github.com/vigetlabs/gulp-starter/tree/1.0.0

The new hotness:

https://github.com/vigetlabs/gulp-starter

NPM

Any directory with a package.json can be published as an npm module.

→ npm adduser
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