What is CommonJS, AMD, WebPack, Browserify etc.?

Question

I am working with javascript from past 4 years still not aware about below terminologies related to module. Could someone please explain these to me in easy language ?

AMD
CommonJS
ES6
WebPack
Browserify

[Relation between CommonJS, AMD and RequireJS?](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/16521471/relation-between-commonjs-amd-and-requirejs) — Satpal, Jun 22 '17 at 12:22

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 22 '17 at 12:30

AMD: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asynchronous_module_definition

CommonJS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CommonJS

ES6: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECMAScript#6th_Edition_-_ECMAScript_2015

WebPack: https://webpack.github.io/docs/what-is-webpack.html

Broserify: https://github.com/substack/browserify-handbook

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 22 '17 at 12:31

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Bad question but...

AMD: http://requirejs.org/docs/whyamd.html

CommonJS: http://www.commonjs.org/

ES6: http://es6-features.org/#Constants

WebPack: https://webpack.js.org/

Broserify: http://browserify.org/

answered Jun 22 '17 at 12:31

Pv-Viana

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thanks...nothing is bad..if I don't understand what it is the where I will ask? – Ankush Jain Jun 22 '17 at 13:24
@AnkushJain Just because a little search in internet would be give you answers, but you're right about asking of course! (: – Pv-Viana Jun 22 '17 at 13:57

What is CommonJS, AMD, WebPack, Browserify etc.?

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