We are using Gulp with browserify, and I am having a problem diagnosing an error. Browserify runs, reporting no problems, however, many of the scripts that should have been concatenated into my output js file are missing.
We have found that this can happen if we are missing an npm package (if we need to run npm install), or if there is something wrong with an npm package. The past couple of times it has happened, we have been lucky in that we had only just added 1 package and so we immediately knew where to look.
Now, I have it failing on a dev machine (by fail, I mean that my output .js file is 1/10th the size it should be an missing many js files, but no errors reported). I am not sure which package it is failing on, and I am getting no diagnostics.
I tried hooking .on('error') as described here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/24817446/67038, but there was no additional output.
The output from the Visual Studio Task Runner Explorer looks like this:
[18:17:21] Using gulpfile C:\git\...\Gulpfile.js
[18:17:21] Starting 'browserify:local'...
[18:17:24] Finished 'browserify:local' after 2.63 s
[18:17:24] Starting 'build:local'...
[18:17:24] Finished 'build:local' after 31 ms
Process terminated with code 0.
What can I do to get additional information from Browserify? Is there some sort of logging that I can turn on?
The problem you experienced was caused by the tsify plugin.
Prior to version 1.0.4, there were a number of path-related bugs that could result in empty modules being emitted without any errors being reported to Browserify. These bugs have been fixed and errors are now emitted to Browserify in situations that would have previously resulted in an empty module.