release an updated browserify build

[ronami]

Hey,

I'm running eslint in a browser along with monaco-editor (an online ide). I saw there's a browserify build (https://github.com/eslint/eslint/blob/master/package.json#L20), but it's not being released as part of the eslint npm package. I was able to find eslint-browserify (https://www.npmjs.com/package/eslint-browserify) but the last time it was released was 2 years ago.

Can we manually release a new and updated version for eslint-browserify and possibly make a release part of the regular release cycle for future builds? If not, is there anything I can do other than to clone eslint and build it myself?

I will be happy to make a PR to support that, please let me know if any of this makes sense.

Thanks!

[not-an-aardvark]

I don't think eslint-browserify is maintained by the ESLint team; it looks like it was released by someone else.

There was some discussion about supporting browser builds in #8348. The team decided that we don't want to officially support a browser build, but we are willing to accept changes that would make it easier for others to bundle ESLint into a browser build.

[ronami]

Thanks for the quick response, very appreciated :)

Would you consider releasing a browserify build as part of the eslint npm package? Or possibly as a separate package?

[not-an-aardvark]

As discussed in #8348 (see #8348 (comment) in particular), we don't want to officially support a browser build because it could pose a significant maintenance burden. However, we'll still consider accepting individual code changes that make ESLint easier to run in the browser (when bundled externally), as long as the changes are small and don't have an adverse impact.

In other words, we don't have an officially supported browser build, but you're free to build it yourself when using it as a dependency, and we're willing to make reasonable changes within ESLint if there are significant roadblocks to bundling it externally.

[mysticatea]

Playground for eslint-plugin-vue might help you. This site is using monaco-editor and eslint together.

• src/app-state/eslint.js#L1 imports ESLint.
• webpack.config.js#L104-L113 is necessary shimming.

[ronami]

Thank you @mysticatea, I was able to use webpack to bundle eslint and it works nicely :)