How to handle emit('file') with Babel presets?

[mattdesl]

I'd like a Babel plugin to be able to emit a new dependency. How can we make this possible with babelify?

For example, I have a plugin that replaces brfs in some ways (with extra features like ES2015 and source maps).

https://github.com/Jam3/babel-plugin-static-fs

But the files will not get picked up by watchify. I can write a new source transform that wraps the above plugin with its own babel-core transform to support the file emitting, but it seems like it would be faster to use a single transform with multiple plugins (es2015, static-fs, etc).

[zertosh]

Hmm. What if the browserify instance is passed down as an option? Or if the plugin returned metadata about files that babelify should emit a file event for?

[loganfsmyth]

I'm triaging old issues on babelify. Since this has been inactive for ages, I'm going to close it. Feel free to re-open if there's still something to discuss, but I'm assuming at this point it's been too long to address in a useful way.

This would be tough. This would need to be added to babel/core first, so either way if we explore this it should happen in https://github.com/babel/babel