I must say, there was a bit of a learning curve to Browserify. Now that I have it working I feel it's one of the best tools we have for front-end development.
I auditioned Component and RequireJS but both of those felt like a kludge. Browserify lets you do node style includes as well as compile your JS into separate bundles.
I wrote a very small structure and build system [1] for our front-end projects at work that uses Browserify / Gulp and can compile everything into separate modules. It uses nginx/apache for routing and since it's all HTML/CSS and compiled JS, it's lightning fast to deliver.
I think this guide is fantastic; we just need more things like this to lower the barrier to entry.
I auditioned Component and RequireJS but both of those felt like a kludge. Browserify lets you do node style includes as well as compile your JS into separate bundles.
I wrote a very small structure and build system [1] for our front-end projects at work that uses Browserify / Gulp and can compile everything into separate modules. It uses nginx/apache for routing and since it's all HTML/CSS and compiled JS, it's lightning fast to deliver.
I think this guide is fantastic; we just need more things like this to lower the barrier to entry.
[1] https://github.com/TeachBoost/mishra