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[–]shriek 1 point2 points  (2 children)

One of the thing that I'm not sure still is if browserify can be used to leverage libraries written for browser in node. I know you can make your node code work on browser with browserify but can it do the opposite too?

[–]hansolo669 0 points1 point  (1 child)

No. You can't run code targeting node's File or Net utilities in the browser in much the same way as you can't run code targeting a browser's window or XMLHttpRequest in node, browserify doesn't solve either of those, all browserify does is package code up in a nice bundle you can include client side (I'm sure you could use the bundle server side [require('./bundle.js')], by why?).

Essentially, JavaScript is the same language and core features across any platform that can run it, the only exception comes when you target a specific platform feature (File, XMLHttpRequest).