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requirejs vs webpack: What are the differences?

What is requirejs? Node adapter for RequireJS, for loading AMD modules. Node adapter for RequireJS, for loading AMD modules. Includes RequireJS optimizer.

What is webpack? Packs CommonJs/AMD modules for the browser. Packs CommonJs/AMD modules for the browser. Allows to split your codebase into multiple bundles, which can be loaded on demand. Support loaders to preprocess files, i.e. json, jsx, es7, css, less, ... and your custom stuff.

requirejs and webpack can be primarily classified as "npm Packages" tools.

requirejs and webpack are both open source tools. webpack with 59.4K GitHub stars and 8.02K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than requirejs with 2.56K GitHub stars and 689 GitHub forks.

According to the StackShare community, webpack has a broader approval, being mentioned in 890 company stacks & 558 developers stacks; compared to requirejs, which is listed in 63 company stacks and 62 developer stacks.

requirejs Stats

Dependent Packages Counts - 3.2K

webpack Stats

Dependent Packages Counts - 128K

requirejs Vulnerabilities

No Vulnerabilities found

webpack Vulnerabilities

Cross-realm object access in Webpack 5
Critical

requirejs Release info

Latest version

2.3.6

MIT

webpack Release info

Latest version

5.91.0

MIT

What is requirejs?

Node adapter for RequireJS, for loading AMD modules. Includes RequireJS optimizer.

What is webpack?

Packs CommonJs/AMD modules for the browser. Allows to split your codebase into multiple bundles, which can be loaded on demand. Support loaders to preprocess files, i.e. json, jsx, es7, css, less, ... and your custom stuff.