[williamcotton]

Any tool added to a project that attempts to replace Make will eventually be replaced by Make.

BTW, it is really unfair to lump Browserify in with Grunt and Gulp.

I haven't been paying much attention to Webpack but now that I know that along with a magnifying glass, a bottle opener, and three kinds of tweezers it includes a build automation tool, I can be pretty safe in ignoring it from here on out.

[dtothefp]

Hat's off to whoever is a big enough hipster to write a Makefile that creates a dependency graph, chunks out common modules while creating multiple bundles, shims non AMD/Common JS dependencies, injects external dependencies, and watches/livereloads only updated chunks...etc. Also, try to do half of that in Browserify and you will probably be better off doing the Makefile approach.