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I've never used browserify, despite working in node, so I could be off base but I thought you didn't need to make it an npm package to support CommonJS and play

• lobster_johnson 12y ago
  You don't need a package.json to use CommonJS or even to use Browserify, but as a developer I don't want to copy external dependencies into a vendor folder to use them, I want to declare my deps in my app's package.json -- so any lib that uses CommonJS but doesn't provide a package.json I will probably not bother to use. People who use npm packages in browser code are pretty much all using Browserify or Webpack and leverage npm. (Many people use Bower, but I don't see the point of using two overlapping package managers.) It's a new dawn of modular JS code; no more global namespace, no more stuffing CDN links in your <head>. I recommend giving it a go.