npm package that includes prelude-browser{,-min}.js

[corwin-of-amber]

Bower is retiring, and the npm package prelude-ls contains only the Node.js version. Can we have a version that includes the browser build as well?

[anko]

Curious: Why do people use browser builds of JS modules?

I put stuff stuff through browserify / webpack / Rollup (to resolve requires), then uglify / esmangle (to minify). I need a build step for LiveScript→JS anyway, so a couple more are trivial.

Is it because you have an app where the same stable library is used across multiple dynamic pages and so you want it in a separate file with a long Cache-Control? You can do that with Browserify's --standalone and --external I think.

[corwin-of-amber]

Fair point. I can only answer from my personal experience (and I suspect hoping for other responses in this one random issue thread is highly optimistic); I don't use browserify / webpack / etc. and perhaps that's my own fallacy. I usually have just a handful of .ls files so I just compile them with lsc and include them in the page.

I believe this simple model should still be possible, at least for the sake of those at entry level who are not familiar with bundlers and want to experiment with LiveScript.