You could call Browserify a build tool, but it has a single purpose
(which is good!), it will bundle your commonjs for use in the browser.
But a lot of the tools mentioned are more general purpose software
build tools.

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On Feb 2, 10:42 am, Phoscur <[email protected]> wrote:
> Yes, both browserifyand browserbuild assemble a concatenated file with
> all files used by require().
>
> Eh, just had a closer look at their sourcecode...
> browserbuild does not resolve dependencies, it just includes all files
> available.
> browserify uses some kind of detective to included needed files (so this
> is indeed the dependency resolving i ment).
>
> Am 02.02.2012 06:51, schrieb hij1nx:
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> > do any of these do automatic dependency resolving?
>
> > On Feb 1, 12:23 am, Phoscur <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> Great, an alternative to browserify! This is perfect. Now I can choose a
> >> build process to combine this with.
> >> Thanks a lot!
>
> >> So far I've seen
> >> cake, grunt and codesurgeon for the build process
> >> and
> >> enderjs, requirejs, pakmanager, browserify and browserbuild to port node
> >> modules to the browserside.
>
> >> This there more?
>
> >> Am 01.02.2012 03:09, schrieb Nathan Rajlich:
>
> >>> You can also check out Browserbuild, from
> >>> LearnBoost:https://github.com/LearnBoost/browserbuild
> >>> On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 4:28 PM, AJ ONeal <[email protected]
> >>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> >>>         > Your directory structure might look like this:
> >>>         > - project
> >>>         >   - browser
> >>>         >   - server
> >>>         Where do you put code, you use on both sides?
> >>>     You create an npm module for it or you symlink it or you copy it.
> >>>         I should be possible with just an entry point, say
> >>>         src/browser.js, to
> >>>         scan throw the whole source directories bundling all files,
> >>>         getting
> >>>         modules it can't find from node_modules/.
> >>>     you can `require('../server/blah.js')`, but I'd recommend using a
> >>>     symlink at worst.
> >>>     I've thought about adding support to list local dependencies in
> >>>     package.json, but npm doesn't like that last time I checked.
> >>>     I don't know if Isaac has blessed a solution for that particular
> >>>     problem or not.
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