Browserify - write client-side javascript server-side

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I've used browserify to "compile" node.js files to a single, browser-includeable JS file. It has worked remarkably well.

Also, James (@substack) is a rockstar. He's continuously made the library better and better.

It's a tough problem. It pulls in dependencies and dependencies of dependencies. I had some difficulty replacing jQuery with CDN jQuery when it was being pulled in from a dependency, and posted an issue. I'm sure @substack will figure out a way to handle cases like this.

https://github.com/substack/node-browserify/issues/46

BTW https://github.com/substack/node-jadeify/ and https://github.com/substack/node-shimify/ are cool too, as are a lot of other libraries of his. I've got one commit to https://github.com/substack/js-traverse and am in the middle of writing a blog post about it. I've been meaning to check out https://github.com/substack/node-burrito which uses traverse.

This is definitely among my favorite tools, alongside substacks dnode and es5 shim it's even better. :)

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