browserify-string

Use browserify programatically to deal with code strings or inline functions. (By default browserify requires that you have your code in a file.)

Installation

Install via npm:

$ npm install browserify-string

Examples

To browserify an inline function:

var browserifyFn = require('browserify-string');
function browserCode() {
  var domready = require('domready'); // client-side code dependency
  domready(function () {
    console.log('ready');
  });
}
browserifyFn(browserCode)
  .bundle(function (err, src) {
    if (err) return done(err);
    // Code should have the browser code and the dependency
    expect(src).to.include(browserCode.toString());
    expect(src).to.include('domready (c) Dustin Diaz 2012 - License MIT');
    done();
  });

To browserify some code as a string:

var browserifyFn = require('browserify-string');
function browserCode() {
  var domready = require('domready'); // client-side code dependency
  domready(function () {
    console.log('ready');
  });
}
browserifyFn(browserCode.toString())
  .bundle(function (err, src) {
    if (err) return done(err);
    // Code should have the browser code and the dependency
    expect(src).to.include(browserCode.toString());
    expect(src).to.include('domready (c) Dustin Diaz 2012 - License MIT');
    done();
  });

The require('browserify-string') returns a browserify instance that you can method chain on to add transforms, etc.

Passing in browserify options

The second parameter to browserify-string is the standard browserify options or files object:

function browserCode() {
  var domready = require('domready');
  domready(function () {
    console.log('ready');
  });
}
browserifyFn(browserCode.toString(), { debug: true })
  .bundle(function (err, src) {
    if (err) return done(err);
    expect(src.toString()).to.include(browserCode.toString());
    expect(src.toString()).to.include('domready (c) Dustin Diaz');
    expect(src.toString()).to.include('//# sourceMappingURL=data:application/json;base64');
    done();
  });