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Grunt and RequireJS are out, it's all about Gulp and Browserify

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Re: Grunt and RequireJS are out, it's all about Gulp and Browserify

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I wouldn't say that. RequireJS vs. Browserify is still a very contentious issue that is up to a developer's preferences.

Is it really, though? Aside from RequireJS's subjectively awful syntax (I have built a few non-trivial applications with it, and find it generally very noisy) - it simply does not do many of the very useful things that Browserify does. Browserify is much more than just a simple dependency management toolkit, it allows you to easily write node-style code and use npm dependencies in the browser. It's practically apples…

RequireJS allows for asynchronous loading. Browserify doesn't.

That alone is a huge reason for why people use RequireJS.

Re: Grunt and RequireJS are out, it's all about Gulp and Browserify

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This is a tangential question, but how do front-end people feel about the constant change in the field? I worked in the front-end and followed the trends for years and have found the changes difficult to follow. In 1997, the rage was VB and lots of cottage companies set up and advertising custom ActiveX widgets, on the web one had to learn ColdFusion and HTML/CSS. In early 2000's, VB6 was retired in favor of .net and…

Sorry I'm late, but I thought I should weigh in. This problem used to frustrate me but I realised that it just isn't worth worrying about. I wrote a big whiney article about it a year and a half ago: http://danielhough.co.uk/blog/i-cant-keep-up/

Re: Grunt and RequireJS are out, it's all about Gulp and Browserify

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Author of gulp here. I've rewritten the example from the blog post to follow gulp best practices. https://gist.github.com/Contra/8780398 The code from the post is misleading/outdated.

Many thanks from one who fought through the outdated source in the OP.
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