> This implies it's now impossible to develop/test this w/o Node.js's module system and/or grunt's browserify pass. For the non-Node.js folks (like me) that's... unfortunate.

You don't need require/node when using the generated file under `dist`.

> I suppose we could dump in a minimal fallback require() implementation that does a sync XHR (bleah)/eval.

Sorry, but I don't understand why you would need that?