That doesn't hold up with browserify => webpack though. Webpack came after Browserify, offered more features, but it was a pain to configure and had no sane def

That doesn't hold up with browserify => webpack though. Webpack came after Browserify, offered more features, but it was a pain to configure and had no sane defaults. It was still widely adopted and was preferred over the older, much easier to configure browserify, because of its flexibility.