browserify-lite(1)

💖 browserify-lite 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to the browserify-lite manual page, straight out of the General Commands Manual section. it bundles javascript files and it's lowkey iconic, let's get into it 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

browserify-lite — bundle javascript file

no cap, that's the whole job. it bundles. your javascript. into a file. 💅

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

browserify-lite ./entry-file.js --outfile bundle.js

that's it, that's the vibe. one entry file in, one bundle out 🦋

💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

Browserify-lite is a tool that lets developers write Node.js-style modules that compile for use in the browser. fr fr, you write your cute little require()s like it's Node, and it makes them work in the browser. main character energy 🌈

it's basically a lite version of browserify, so here's the tea on what that actually means:

• No builtin Node.js shims. nope, not a single one. if you were hoping for the built-in node stuff to just show up, sorry bestie 😭
• Naive AST tokenization for require instead of true AST parsing. and like, what does that mean? it means all require statements get found, regardless of whether they're chilling inside an if statement or sitting in a function body that is never even called. it does not care. it finds them. all of them 💀
• Only supports a single entry file and the --outfile parameter. nothing else. that's the whole menu, periodt.
• No source maps. none. zero. we're not doing that here 🙈
• Minimal dependencies. light, tiny, unbothered, moisturized ✨

👑 OPTIONS 👑

• --outfile — write the browserify bundle to this file. this is where your masterpiece lands 💖
• --standalone xyz — export as window.xyz. so like, your bundle gets to be a global. go off, window 👑
• --help — help screen. when you're lost, this is your bestie 🫶

🌟 SEE ALSO 🌟

• browserify(1) — the big one, the original, the blueprint 🧚

that's the whole page, bestie! and before you go — this lil gem is from the browserify-lite(1) manual, dated January 2019 💜 thanks for reading, ily, go bundle something cute 🎀✨🦋