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RequireJS vs pip

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Overview

RequireJS
RequireJS
Stacks8.8K
Followers3.2K
Votes307
pip
pip
Stacks579
Followers182
Votes3

pip vs RequireJS: What are the differences?

Developers describe pip as "A package installer for Python". It is the package installer for Python. You can use pip to install packages from the Python Package Index and other indexes. On the other hand, RequireJS is detailed as "JavaScript file and module loader". RequireJS loads plain JavaScript files as well as more defined modules. It is optimized for in-browser use, including in a Web Worker, but it can be used in other JavaScript environments, like Rhino and Node. It implements the Asynchronous Module API. Using a modular script loader like RequireJS will improve the speed and quality of your code.

pip and RequireJS belong to "Front End Package Manager" category of the tech stack.

RequireJS is an open source tool with 12.2K GitHub stars and 2.3K GitHub forks. Here's a link to RequireJS's open source repository on GitHub.

According to the StackShare community, RequireJS has a broader approval, being mentioned in 916 company stacks & 185 developers stacks; compared to pip, which is listed in 3 company stacks and 3 developer stacks.

Detailed Comparison

RequireJS
RequireJS
pip
pip

RequireJS loads plain JavaScript files as well as more defined modules. It is optimized for in-browser use, including in a Web Worker, but it can be used in other JavaScript environments, like Rhino and Node. It implements the Asynchronous Module API. Using a modular script loader like RequireJS will improve the speed and quality of your code.

It is the package installer for Python. You can use pip to install packages from the Python Package Index and other indexes.

Statistics
Stacks
8.8K
Stacks
579
Followers
3.2K
Followers
182
Votes
307
Votes
3
Pros & Cons
Pros
  • 79
    Open source
  • 69
    Modular script loader
  • 66
    Asynchronous
  • 49
    Great for AMD
  • 30
    Fast
Pros
  • 3
    Best package management system for python

What are some alternatives to RequireJS, pip?

npm

npm

npm is the command-line interface to the npm ecosystem. It is battle-tested, surprisingly flexible, and used by hundreds of thousands of JavaScript developers every day.

Browserify

Browserify

Browserify lets you require('modules') in the browser by bundling up all of your dependencies.

Yarn

Yarn

Yarn caches every package it downloads so it never needs to again. It also parallelizes operations to maximize resource utilization so install times are faster than ever.

Component

Component

Component's philosophy is the UNIX philosophy of the web - to create a platform for small, reusable components that consist of JS, CSS, HTML, images, fonts, etc. With its well-defined specs, using Component means not worrying about most frontend problems such as package management, publishing components to a registry, or creating a custom build process for every single app.

Verdaccio

Verdaccio

A simple, zero-config-required local private npm registry. Comes out of the box with its own tiny database, and the ability to proxy other registries (eg. npmjs.org), caching the downloaded modules along the way.

Duo

Duo

Duo is a next-generation package manager that blends the best ideas from Component, Browserify and Go to make organizing and writing front-end code quick and painless.

Pika.dev

Pika.dev

It is a new kind of package registry for the modern web. It handles formatting, configuring, building and publishing every package on the registry, so that individual authors don't have to.

Bundler

Bundler

It provides a consistent environment for Ruby projects by tracking and installing the exact gems and versions that are needed. It is an exit from dependency hell, and ensures that the gems you need are present in development, staging, and production.

Browserify-CDN

Browserify-CDN

Browsers don't have the require method defined, but Node.js does. With Browserify you can write code that uses require in the same way that you would use it in Node.

Entropic

Entropic

It is a new package registry with a new CLI, designed to be easy to stand up inside your network. It features an entirely new file-centric API and a content-addressable storage system that attempts to minimize the amount of data you must retrieve over a network. This file-centric approach also applies to the publication API.

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