This post documents how to use the hbsfy precompiler plugin for Browserify to compile Handlebars templates into javascript. With this design, templates can be required as javascript modules in the views that use them.

This post documents how to use local JavaScript modules with Browserify and the Google Maps JavaScript API. In this example, the Google Map contains a marker that can be dragged to reset the browser form with the marker position location data. Additionally, Browserify shim is used to require jQuery since it is already being loaded from a CDN.

This Sass preprocessor workflow uses cssnano for postprocessing minification and optimization that includes Autoprefixer to add vendor prefixes for only the browsers that need to be supported. UPDATE: Webpack 3 version (11-12-2017) Autoprefixer Without Autoprefixer, adding in vender prefixes is done in the Sass code, typically with a mixin to append every known prefix for a property. This more advanced mixin to prefix properties at least accepts prefix parameters for more control over which ones to use.

This post documents how to create a RequireJS module that loads the Google Maps JavaScript API and is used by a web page to populate form inputs with location data. The Google Map contains a marker that can be dragged to reset the form with the marker position location data.

BrowserSync is my Node.js web browser app development server of choice. This gulpfile is a work in progress to address support for server side includes when using a BrowserSync static server.

Browserify lets you write modular JavaScript in node.js style. At the beginning of each module you write, the respective dependencies are added using require statements. Then Browserify compiles the modules along with all of the dependencies into an optimized JavaScript file for use in the browser.