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Re:Reusing require.js modules in Node.js with AMDrequire by chr1 on Wednesday May 21, 2014 @11:41AM (#7778828)
Browserify compile step on a large project is painfully slow. Using https://www.npmjs.org/package/amd-loader with commonjs style modules http://requirejs.org/docs/commonjs.html was much easier to use.

> I'd much prefer to deliver less code to the client if possible

requirejs shim isn't signifcantly larger than what browserify adds, it's only 200 lines.

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Re:Reusing require.js modules in Node.js with AMDrequire by couchand on Wednesday May 21, 2014 @11:54AM (#7778893)
Browserify compile step on a large project is painfully slow.

I'd be very interested in seeing a set of benchmarks comparing browserify to r.js. I'd be very surprised if the difference was meaningful, since they do basically the same thing. In fact, doesn't r.js support CommonJS-style requires?

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Re:Reusing require.js modules in Node.js with AMDrequire by chr1 on Wednesday May 21, 2014 @12:02PM (#7778941)
The speed of r.js and browserify compile is about the same, indeed. The difference is that with browserify i had to wait for it on every reload, and r.js runs only for release, on buildbot.
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