The Nodejs Toolbox (TNT)

An opinionated list of great tools for NodeJS tooling.

Module bundlers

• Browserify, works well with npm packages
• RequireJS, works well with bower packages
• jspm

Task Runners

• Gulp 4.0

• *Gulp - The swiss army knife of task runners**
  

  Process Monitors

• Nodemon

• Supervisor

• PM2

• Forever

Watch mode live reload tools

• Browsersync
• livereload
• watchify watch mode for browserify builds

Compilers

• Babel

• Webpack, webpack2 - also does all of the above.

• *Webpack - The swiss army knife of swiss army knives!**
  

References

• http://jamesknelson.com/which-build-system-should-i-use-for-my-javascript-app/
• https://www.leanpanda.com/blog/2015/06/28/amd-requirejs-commonjs-browserify/