Componentjs vs requirejs?

Question

What benefits to use componentjs (https://github.com/component/component) instead of requirejs?

Both project has the same idea, hard to make choice between them.

Answer 1

RequireJS is just a JavaScript file and module loader.

Component is a whole system which allows you to package HTML+JS+CSS+Images+Fonts in a one module, component. Component also provides package registry(vs npm), dependency handling(vs requirejs), build and task system(vs grunt/gulp).

There's good document where component is compared to other build/package handling tools: https://github.com/component/guide/blob/master/component/vs.md

This blog post helped me to understand component: http://blog.benmcmahen.com/post/55280740882/using-component-js