Browserify Friend (BFF) - it is as if browserify was built into the browser.
npm install bff -g
In a directory run:
> bff server
Serving contents on port 3000.
This will start a static file web server on port 3000 except that Javascript files will automatically get browserified.
In the same directory run:
> bff build
Successfully browserified your site in 'build'.
Now your site has been browserified within the build directory and it can be served by a static web server.
To try this out, start in a new empty directory. Let's install domify - a library to convert an html string into a DOM element
npm install domify
make an index.html file with just this
<body>
<script src="index.js"></script>
</body>
Make an index.js
var domify = require('domify')
document.body.appendChild(domify('<h1>Hello World with Browserify!</h1>'))
Start the bff server
bff server
Navigate to http://localhost:3000 and see it work.
Now, if you want to generate the site so that it can be served via a static web server like Apache or Nginx, use the build command
bff build
Test it using the python web server
cd build
python -m SimpleHTTPServer
Navigate to http://localhost:8000 and see it work.
BFF configures Browserify to make all top level files requirable. This means you can do var domify = require('domify') in the development console. You can also require any .js file in your app using relative paths, e.g. var app = require('./app').
FAQs
Browserify Friend - it's as if browserify was built into the browser.
The npm package bff receives a total of 0 weekly downloads. As such, bff popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that bff demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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