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Implements tree-shaking
Can reduce resulting bundle size by performing "tree-shaking" (removing unused parts of code).
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Async/await support lack
Doesn't support async/await out of the box for the time being, and there is no available working plugin to fill the gap.
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Easy configuration
Simple config files
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Small and fast installation
It's only one file.
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Ideal for shipping es2015/ES6 modules
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Supports several modules types
StealJS has support for AMD, CJS and ES6 module types.
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Changing the order of require statements causes unexpected behavior
Sometimes changing the order of the require statements in a JavaScript file loaded with stealjs may cause unexpected problems or even breaking the code altogether.
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Support for LESS and CSS
StealJS can also load CSS and LESS files in addition to JavaScript modules.
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Mix ES6 AMD and CommonJS
StealJS supports using all three module types, even in the same file.
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ES6 module support
StealJs supports ES6 modules and their import and export methods without having to compile them to CommonJS require.
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Support for ES6
StealJS supports transpiling of ES6 code to ES5
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Supports all systemjs based plugins
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Supports source maps for easier debugging
Source maps allow for easier debugging, because they allow you to find the problems within the origin files instead of the output file.
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Share the same modules client-side and server-side
Because StealJS allows you to use the same require() function as node.js, you can easily share modules between the client-side and server-side.
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Tap into npm's huge module ecosystem
Using StelaJS opens you up to npm, that has over 80k modules of which a great amount work both client-side and server-side. And the list is growing rapidly.
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Compilation is super fast
According to speed benchmarks, Brunch is one of the fastest tools around for compiling files. According to the authors of Brunch the reason behind this speed is that it recompiles only the changes that were made to an app and performs extensive caching of the app's code.
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Time to setup is extremely low
After installing Brunch the next step is to load a skeleton from git.io/skeletons. This step is as easy as installing another plugin from the npm registry, just point Brunch to the path of the required skeleton/generator then wait for it to work out its magic. Next, run brunch build then wait for a second or two and voila! the project is ready.
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The configuration file is small and the configuration itself is fast and easy
Brunch's config files can be extremely small compared to other alternatives. The fact that brunch also allows you to chose from a number of generators also lowers the configuration time considerably.
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Concatenates scripts and styles and auto-generates matching source maps
Brunch automatically produces a source map for all javascript files and CSS stylesheets whenever it minifies an app's resources. This little feature is extremely helpful when debugging is required at the client end.
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Great tooling and language support
Very good CLI and webpack, bundling, testing, deployment support. Deep TypeScript integration and support.
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Slightly over-engineered
Very enterprisey - made for huge architectures and with tons of declarative, non-intuitive annotations it makes it overkill for very small projects.
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Native i18n support over-engineered
Not developer-friendly. Switching languages need reloading the whole page. There are third party solutions that work better.
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Rich and flexible plugin infrastructure
Plugins and loaders are easy to write and allow you to control each step of the build, from loading and compiling CoffeeScript, LESS and JADE files to smart post processing and asset manifest building.
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Config file may be hard to understand
Due to a somewhat hard to grasp syntax, configuring Webpack may take some time.
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Tap into npm's huge module ecosystem
Using Webpack opens you up to npm, that has over 80k modules of which a great amount work both client-side and server-side. And the list is growing rapidly.
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Can not load files discovered during runtime
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Can create a single bundle or multiple chunks loaded on demand, to reduce initial loading time
Webpack allows you to split your codebase into multiple chunks. Chunks are loaded on demand. This reduces the initial loading time.
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Supports source maps for easier debugging
Source maps allow for easier debugging, because they allow you to find the problems within the origin files instead of the output file.
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ES6 module support
Webpack supports ES6 modules and their import and export methods without having to compile them to CommonJS require
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Share the same modules client-side and server-side
Because Webpack allows you to use the same require() function as node.js, you can easily share modules between the client-side and server-side.
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Bundles CommonJs and AMD modules (even combined)
Webpack supports AMD and CommonJS module styles. It performs clever static analysis on the AST of your code. It even has an evaluation engine to evaluate simple expressions. This allows you to support most existing libraries.
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Mix ES6 AMD and CommonJS
Webpack supports using all three module types, even in the same file.
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Limit plugin integration issues
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JSPM
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Registry agnostic
JSPM is registry agnostic, it can pull packages from npm and github and is built in such a way it can support more.
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You need to be an expert to write shims
You can load any module. But that comes with the price: you need to find or write configs to load a particular rare module.
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Module style agnostic
Loads ES6, AMD, CommonJS and globals.
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Doesn't hide complexity
JSPM doesn't try to hide complexity from the user. I.e. when some issue emerges you need understand a lot to be able to patch it or create a workaround.
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Can transcompile ES6, JSX and Typescript
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Watcher has bugs
Watching would benefit from improvements
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Much faster than Webpack or Browserify
While Webpack and Browserify recompile the source code using Babel, jspm is the only packager that can load prebuild/minified code downloaded from the npm registry.
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Unstable API
0.17 is still in beta. 0.16 is lacking features.
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Bundled based on imported modules without any config
Create the bundle file without config and add only the modules imported.
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Poor bundler performance
Bundling performance is slow, though offset by the fact that bundling is not required during development, since it can load dependencies asynchronously.
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Switch between async or sync load
With a simple command you could change between load the modules async by systemjs or sync with a bundle file.
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Easy install packages from npm, github or any git repository
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Versioned package urls
It creates a packages folders which are versioned. This makes it future proof for a time where we stop bundling all the code. In the following presentation Guy Bedford calls bundling an anti-pattern.
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Very easy to start with
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Works with basically every desktop browser, even IE6
RequireJS supports IE6+, FF2+, Safari3.2+, Chrome3+ & Opera 10+.
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On its way out
Latest stable release is 2 months old with little development occurring on Github.
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Well documented
The RequireJS module loader is extremely well documented. So no matter whether you're a pro at JS based web development or just a newbie, you will find the documentation very helpful whenever you're stuck or just starting out. Everything is well-defined and logically placed in proper sections in a manner such that it is very easy to understand.
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Poor handling of circular references
If you create a circular reference between two files, it will typically quietly break - the reference on one side will end up undefined.
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You don't need a server to get started
One of the best advantages of RequireJS over Browserify is that you don't need a nodejs environment to get started. Just "require" your dependencies and it takes care of loading them. By contrast, Browserify requires a running NodeJS implementation so you can build your one monolithic file, then you can push the file to your static web server.
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AMD spec uses globals
The global ‘require’ and ‘define’ methods make namespace collisions likely if building a 3rd party plugin. AMD loaders line require are best if you control the site.
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Has a RequireJS optimizer
After building all the modules to be loaded, the built files can be optimized as well (minified and concatenated), even though this is a completely optional step, but doing so could be a lot beneficial for your site's performance.
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Can't handle CSS dependencies
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Lazily-loaded JS can access already loaded modules by name
Yet its run-time is still competitive if not better than Webpack's at higher density levels of modules.
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Always running site unbundled
With other loaders, aka browserify, it isn't possible to run your site without first bundling. Require.js can load everything async which is pretty powerful.
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Supports nested dependencies
If your project has nested dependencies, you won't have to worry about resolving them at all. Because RequireJS will do that for you.
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Well tested
Since the RequireJS is quite popular among the dev community, that automatically means that problems get sorted out very quickly and most of the core code has already been tested.
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AMD & CJS support
While RequireJS is mainly an AMD implementation, it can, with rare exceptions, implement CJS as well.
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Simple
Because of its easy to understand documentation, the RequireJS module loader is super simple to use; module definitions are as easy as defining just a key/value pair.
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Can load new modules without being recompiled
It's the one of the few modules in this category that can handle IOC-style dependency injection. The others work well for apps that have knowable dependency lists at compile time, but this is the only one that can load new modules without being recompiled.
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Supports hot RE-loading
Persistent console logging, generational statefulness, promotes stateless DOM development.
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