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Ignore module with browserify in gulp


since gulp-browserify module is blacklisted I`ve tried to rewrite my old code in gulpfile.js without gulp-browserify.

I have this worked task with gulp-browserify

var gulp = require('gulp'),
    browserify = require('gulp-browserify');

gulp.task('browserify', function() {
    return gulp.src('./lib/tssoft.commons.js')
        .pipe(browserify({
            ignore: ['jsdom']
        }))
        .pipe(gulp.dest('./dist/'))
});

as you see I tell gulp-browserify to ignore require('jsdom') in browserifying.

After gulp-browserify was uninstalled I instal browserify module and rewrite code

var gulp = require('gulp'),
    browserify = require('browserify');

gulp.task('browserify', function() {
    var b = browserify();
    b.ignore('jsdom');
    b.add('./lib/tssoft.commons.js');
    return b.bundle()
        .pipe(gulp.dest('./dist/'));
});

And get this error: "Arguments to path.resolve must be strings".


Solution

  • Stumpled upon this just a couple days ago, here you go:

    var gulp = require('gulp'),
        browserify = require('browserify'),
        source = require('vinyl-source-stream');
    
    gulp.task('browserify', function() {
        var b = browserify();
        b.ignore('jsdom');
        var path = './lib/tssoft.commons.js';
        b.add(path);
        return b.bundle()
            .pipe(source(path))
            .pipe(gulp.dest('./dist/'));
    });