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0 pointsroadbeats10y ago0 comments

If you look at how browserify/webpack works, you'll see that AMD is the same thing except that you're coding the module wrappers by yourself manually, when browserify & webpack does it for you.

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spankalee10y ago· 2 in thread

Right, so AMD works in the browser, and CommonJS doesn't. Tools can transform CommonJS to behave like AMD.

roadbeatsOP10y ago

oh man, you're confused. AMD was originally a CommonJS compiler in its very early days. The guy who wrote it invented its own standard (AMD) way later than CommonJS.

spankalee10y ago

How am I confused? AMD works in the browser, CommonJS doesn't. It's very simple, and tools that convert CommonJS to a format that works in the browser only prove that it doesn't.

The history of the formats does not change the facts of how they operate today.

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