mattdesl/budo

Health v2 · maintenance only

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2169 stars · 104 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

Budo is a browserify-based development server for rapid front-end prototyping, offering incremental bundling, LiveReload with CSS injection, and a default index.html. It is usable from the command line or via a rich Node.js API for building custom dev tools.

Use cases

• run a local dev server for browserify bundles
• live reload css and js while prototyping
• serve a default index.html for quick experiments
• incrementally rebuild on file save without stale bundles
• build custom development tooling on a server api
• serve static files with livereload without bundling

When to choose

• you use browserify/watchify and want an integrated dev server with livereload
• you want fast incremental bundling during rapid prototyping
• you need a programmable dev server api for custom tooling

When to avoid

• your project uses webpack, vite, or esbuild instead of browserify
• you need a production web server
• you need actively maintained tooling with modern ecosystem support

Facets

cli-tool · maturity maintenance

http-server developer-tools cli web-development frontend developer-tools cli cross-platform browserify livereload dev-server hot-reload prototyping watchify command-line nodejs

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