Browserify

Abstract

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) and combines them into a single, minified file—a “bundle”—that can then be loaded within the browser.