MCJS

Merge Common JS modules into a single module.

MCJS produces a single module with all inner requirements merged into a single scope with resolved name conflicts. That way it gains maximum compressability and minimal overhead. Smaller than browserify, component, webpack, powerbuild, small.

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Usage

Install

$ npm install mcjs

Use as a browserify plugin:

browserify index.js -p mcjs/plugin

Build

dep.js:

var z = 123;
module.exports = z;

index.js:

var a = require('./dep');
module.exports = a;

Run mcjs:

$ mcjs index.js > bundle.js or $ cat index.js | mcjs > bundle.js

Resulting bundle.js:

var m_a, m_index;
 
var z = 123;
m_a = z;
 
var a = m_a;
module.exports = a;

Motivation

Closure compiler can expand any objects, so if to merge modules into a single scope, which means to resolve global vars conflict and to replace all module.exports and require calls, then we get one-scoped bundle, which closure compiler compresses the way better than separated by scopes browserified/compiled bundle.

Mcjs does the same task as a ClosureCompiler with --process_commonjs_modules flag, but avoids creating of goog.provide's and makes variables more human-readable.

Reference

• The cost of small modules