connect-browserify
v5.0.0
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Connect/express middleware for serving apps to a browser with browserify
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Connect/express middelware for serving front-end applications with
browserify. Install via npm
:
npm install connect-browserify
Basic usage is as follows:
var express = require('express');
var browserify = require('connect-browserify');
app = express();
app.use('/js/app.js', browserify({
entry: 'src/app.js', // entry for your application
requirements: ['src/views.js'], // additional modules to require, will
// be exposed under id relative to
// entry, e.g. './views' in current
// example
transforms: ['coffeeify'], // transforms to use
bundle: function(bundle) { // optional, configure browserify instance
// configure bundle
return bundle
},
pipes: function(stream) { // optional, apply post-bundle-transforms
return stream // Receives the browserify bundle stream
.pipe(uglifyStream); // Must return another stream
},
onError: function(err) { // optional, called if errors occur during the
console.warn(err); // build process. If not set, errors are only
}, // available via the middleware response
contentType: 'text/javascript', // optional, Content-type header to use, by
// default this equals to 'application/javascript'
extensions: ['.js', '.coffee'], // to consider non-js files as
// CommonJS modules
debug: true // see browserify docs, other options are
}));
app.listen(3000);
This middleware will start watching directory of entry file for changes and rebuild bundle accordingly and caching the result for future requests.
You should never use this middleware in production — use nginx for serving pre-built bundles to a browser.