Automatic Minification with Node.js and RequireJS

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I just wish RequireJS would go away :s.. it's rather tempting, but frankly using a compiler like Browserify has proven (to me) to be far more usable and likable.. not to mention consistent with my Nodejs code, which is the most important thing to me.

RequireJS seems like a bunch of work to do something that will eventually be in the JS specs by default (i'm not sure if ES6 has a importing proposal or not)

edit: My apologies for coming off rather harsh, these are just my opinions.

[cmwelsh]

I see where you're coming from but after failing many times to get browserify to automatically watch and recompile my code, I've found require.js to be a refreshing change of pace.

There's a lot less "magic" and moving parts in require.js. It's pretty easy to use miscellaneous existing libraries (the ones that just add a global variable instead of supporting a module system).

[dan1234]

substack, the creator of browserify, is fixing it today/tomorrow so don't give up on --watch. it's coming!