Using browser javascript libraries with browserify

[tommedema]

I'm using quite a lot of complex javascript libraries on the client side.

An example: https://github.com/scottschiller/SoundManager2/blob/master/script/soundmanager2.js

Is it possible to make these libraries require-able?

[ghost]

Instead of attaching your exports to the window object, attach them to module.exports or exports, just like in node. Then from another file you can just var SoundManager = require('./soundmanager2.js').

[tommedema]

@substack, something like this at the bottom of the example?

module.exports = window.SoundManager; ?

[7fe]

@tommedema

Use the following

if (typeof module !== 'undefined' && module.exports) {
    module.exports = SoundManager;
  } else {
    window.SoundManager = SoundManager;
}

[ghost]

@tommedema Sure that will work but you also don't need to assign anything to window at all, you can just have module.exports = SoundManager for a plain-old function SoundManager. That way you don't need to worry about a global SoundManager making things confusing.