About browserify-node

Transformer for browserify to generate clientside code.

###Information

• Include file with node.js extention
• In this file define exports funtion which return string of client js code

//test.node.js
module.exports = function() {
  return "{hello: \"world\"}";
}

• require test.node.js file using browserify infrastructure

var test = require("test.node");
test.hello === "world"; // true

Instalation

npm install browserify-node --save-dev

Example

For example we want to load async text file

//text.node.js
var fs = require("fs");
var md5 = require("md5");
module.exports = function() {
  var data = fs.readFileSync("./text.txt");
  var hash = md5(data);
  var json = "{content:\"" + data + "\"}";
  var filename = "test-" + hash + ".json";
  fs.writeFileSync(filename, json);
  return "function(){ return $.getJSON('" + filename + "'); }"
}

//app.js
var text = require("text.node");
text().done(function(json) {
  console.log(json.content);
});