Browserify

Browserify
Developer(s) James Halliday and Browserify contributors
Initial release 2011
Stable release 8.0.1 / December 24, 2014
Development status Active
Written in JavaScript
Operating system Cross-platform
License MIT License
Website browserify.org

Browserify is an open-source JavaScript tool that allows developers to write Node.js-style modules that compile for use in the browser.[1]

With Browserify, you can write code that uses require() in the same way that you would use it in Node. Node.js and npm popularized use of the CommonJS require() statement to write modules, but web browsers don't have built-in support for CommonJS. With browserify, developers can make use of many of the hundreds of thousands of modules on npm in the browser.

Production Users

Browserify is used in production by many companies and products, including Yellow Pages, Yahoo Play, StudyNotes, and Getable.[2]

History

For a full calendar of release dates, view the Browserify Changelog.

References

  1. ↑ "NPM, Browserify, and modules". Retrieved 24 Dec 2014.
  2. ↑ "Browserify in the Wild". GitHub. Retrieved 24 Dec 2014.