Jam vs ender vs colo vs component vs browserify vs bower?

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by ep103 • 13 years ago

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Which should I learn / use?

vittore• 13 years ago

You better create poll and we'll see how many people use which. We use bower.

htilford• 13 years ago

They all solve slightly different problems, we use both bower and browserify

ep1033• 13 years ago

what are the differences? Just a one liner overview would be great, if your time is scarce : ))

brianchu• 13 years ago

Note that bower is extremely lightweight; all it basically does is pull repos from github. So it can hardly be considered a package manager. The rest all offer various features above and beyond bower, AFAIK.

The reason bower is so popular is because it doesn't do very much.

malandrew2• 13 years ago

Tell us more about your use case. I'm building a package manager so, I've spend a lot of time with the source code of all of those and read many of the comments of their authors in debates on ES6 Harmony modules/loaders and know a lot about their pros and cons.

My personal preference for webapps is component.

What is your back-end? What is your frontend? Any frameworks? How important is total uglified size to you? i.e. are you working for a company where every 100ms for each 100kb matters? How are you handling other assets like images, css, etc? How familiar are you with node.js and the npm ecosystem?

ep1033• 13 years ago

I currently work for an MS consulting shop. Historically, my tools have been Asp.Net MVC / WebForms / WebAPI / WCF, MSSQL Server, and your standard HTML5/JS/CSS3.

A few years ago I realized I loved javascript, so I've been studying everything frontend with the hope of eventually leaving the JS hating MS world, and going somewhere more JS oriented. For JS I've learned a good deal of Backbone, Angular, Node.js, and soon I'll be focusing on WebGL.

I am familiar with npm.

I usually roll my own assets. Most solutions I've worked on haven't had a heavy art presence, and having basic-decent photoshop / design understanding has been sufficient.

As for company requirements, I really don't have any. I just know that I'm going to pick at least one on that list to dive into, and was hoping for community input before I put the time to learn investment in a framework. I mean, if most development shops use one over the other, then I'd love to learn that one! Or if one is up and coming, then that would be great too...

malandrew2• 13 years ago

Given your situation, I'd say component, bower and browserify are all interesting and worth checking out.

Bower really doesn't do much other than resolve dependencies, but that doesn't mean you won't find it useful.

If you are really into the node.js ecosystem and your back-end is node.js, then browserify is worth checking out. If not, I'd opt for component.

Jam vs ender vs colo vs component vs browserify vs bower?

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