It may help rereading the post as it does explain why both are on the list. FWIW you're linking to the pre-build dev source. Lo-Dash is available as modules f

It may help rereading the post as it does explain why both are on the list. FWIW you're linking to the pre-build dev source. Lo-Dash is available as modules for AMD, ES6, CommonJS, Node.js, and npm packages per method. https://npmjs.org/package/lodash-amd https://npmjs.org/package/lodash-amd https://github.com/lodash/lodash-es6 https://github.com/lodash/lodash-es6 https://npmjs.org/package/lodash-node https://npmjs.org/package/lodash-node https://npmjs.org/browse/keyword/lodash-modularized https://npmjs.org/browse/keyword/lodash-modularized Also, jQuery is using AMD internally and allows custom builds. There is even a project to convert it to something more easily consumed by browserify: https://github.com/kirbysayshi/node-ddd-jquery#rationale https://github.com/kirbysayshi/node-ddd-jquery#rationale