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Browserify vs Brunch: What are the differences?

What is Browserify? Browser-side require() the node.js way. Browserify lets you require('modules') in the browser by bundling up all of your dependencies.

What is Brunch? Ultra-fast HTML5 build tool. Brunch is an assembler for HTML5 applications. It's agnostic to frameworks, libraries, programming, stylesheet & templating languages and backend technology.

Browserify can be classified as a tool in the "Front End Package Manager" category, while Brunch is grouped under "JS Build Tools / JS Task Runners".

"Node style browser code" is the top reason why over 73 developers like Browserify, while over 12 developers mention "Easy and awesome" as the leading cause for choosing Brunch.

Browserify and Brunch are both open source tools. It seems that Browserify with 12.7K GitHub stars and 1.12K forks on GitHub has more adoption than Brunch with 6.58K GitHub stars and 461 GitHub forks.

Clever, Repro, and UNION are some of the popular companies that use Browserify, whereas Brunch is used by Blossom, Red Bull, and Uber Technologies. Browserify has a broader approval, being mentioned in 111 company stacks & 42 developers stacks; compared to Brunch, which is listed in 14 company stacks and 9 developer stacks.

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Pros of Browserify

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Node style browser code
52
Load modules installed by npm
45
Works great with gulp.js
38
NPM modules in the brower
34
Open source
16
Node streams
1
Easy setup

13
Easy and awesome
9
Ultra Fast
9
Light Configuration
4
Built-in dev server with live reload
3
Simple to use
2
Has many pre-configurable framework "skeletons"

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What is Browserify?

Browserify lets you require('modules') in the browser by bundling up all of your dependencies.

What is Brunch?

Brunch is an assembler for HTML5 applications. It's agnostic to frameworks, libraries, programming, stylesheet & templating languages and backend technology.

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What are some alternatives to Browserify and Brunch?

Bower

Bower is a package manager for the web. It offers a generic, unopinionated solution to the problem of front-end package management, while exposing the package dependency model via an API that can be consumed by a more opinionated build stack. There are no system wide dependencies, no dependencies are shared between different apps, and the dependency tree is flat.

Webpack

A bundler for javascript and friends. Packs many modules into a few bundled assets. Code Splitting allows to load parts for the application on demand. Through "loaders" modules can be CommonJs, AMD, ES6 modules, CSS, Images, JSON, Coffeescript, LESS, ... and your custom stuff.

Babel

Babel will turn your ES6+ code into ES5 friendly code, so you can start using it right now without waiting for browser support.

rollup

It is a module bundler for JavaScript which compiles small pieces of code into something larger and more complex, such as a library or application. It uses the new standardized format for code modules included in the ES6 revision of JavaScript, instead of previous idiosyncratic solutions such as CommonJS and AMD.

RequireJS

RequireJS loads plain JavaScript files as well as more defined modules. It is optimized for in-browser use, including in a Web Worker, but it can be used in other JavaScript environments, like Rhino and Node. It implements the Asynchronous Module API. Using a modular script loader like RequireJS will improve the speed and quality of your code.

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