Browserify - Githubissues

tj / frontend-boilerplate

webpack-react-redux-babel-autoprefixer-hmr-postcss-css-modules-rucksack-boilerplate (unmaintained, I don't use it anymore)

2.92k stars 268 forks source link

Browserify #59

Open rstacruz opened 8 years ago

rstacruz commented 8 years ago

I know this repo represents your personal preferences, but I'm curious on why the choice of webpack over browserify.

browserify can do hot module replacement via browserify-hmr and it's pretty easy. no need for an external dev server like webpack-dev-server.
postcss is supported via browserify-postcss, but why bother adding your css into your js files when they can be compiled as .css files?
vendor.bundle.js can be done via factor-bundle
babel is supported via babelify

using browserify would probably reduce 60 lines of webpack.config.js into just ~10 lines inside package.json, and is much simpler to boot.

tj commented 8 years ago

I'm cool with it if the hmr stuff is as fast, I've had issues with browserify being slow in the past but that was pre-hmr. I don't really care what builder it is as long as it supports the stuff I want to use, at a glance it seemed to have less adoption these days.

rstacruz commented 8 years ago

Ahh.. Sounds like watchify will fix that for you :)

On Thursday, February 11, 2016, TJ Holowaychuk notifications@github.com wrote:

I'm cool with it if the hmr stuff is as fast, I've had issues with browserify being slow in the past but that was pre-hmr

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/tj/frontend-boilerplate/issues/59#issuecomment-182470341 .

tj commented 8 years ago

Yeah maybe, seems snappier now than it was when I tried last, at least for the tiny demo app in there

tj commented 8 years ago

Is it possible to use postcss without streams? Can't stand node streams, I just want non-js config ideally

rstacruz commented 8 years ago

You mean from the cli?

browserify -t [ browserify-postcss --plugin cssnext ] -t browserify-css

Or expressing its equivalent in the package.json "browserify" field. Disclaimer: haven't actually tried it, so it probably doesn't work as is. Haha

On Thursday, February 11, 2016, TJ Holowaychuk notifications@github.com wrote:

Is it possible to use postcss without streams? Can't stand node streams, I just want non-js config ideally

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/tj/frontend-boilerplate/issues/59#issuecomment-182485497 .

tj commented 8 years ago

cool I'll try it out later on my stuff and see how it goes