FYI, browserify has support for all the cool tricks you list too now; it's just a question of finding and wiring up all the right plugins. Eg, lessify, css-mod

FYI, browserify has support for all the cool tricks you list too now; it's just a question of finding and wiring up all the right plugins. Eg, lessify, css-modulesify, or csvify will handle the cool require tricks, browserify-hmr does the fancy hot module replacement, watchify has incremental recompiliation support if you manage to configure it just right, etc. Mind you, I find webpack easier to configure (all the fancy browserify plugins destroy it's simplicity), but the two toolchains have had feature parity for a while.