Starting with your main JavaScript file, Browserify follows imported scripts and builds a tree of dependencies. That starting file is the entry point; Browserify bundles the required modules into one JavaScript file for a webpage. section 3.3
Entry point
The initial file or module from which dependency analysis and loading begins in a module graph.
How Get Programming with JavaScript Next: New features of ECMAScript 2015, 2016, and beyond covers it
- How deep it goes
- Defines the starting file and traces imported scripts into a dependency tree, stopping at the bundling workflow.
- Examples
- Follows a main JavaScript file and its imported scripts into a single browser-ready bundle.
- What you can do after
- Apply Browserify to bundle a main file and its required modules for a webpage.
- How it connects
- Connects JavaScript modules, Node.js, Browserify, and dependency trees.
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