Broken with Browserify

[leeola]

I attempted to use showdown with browserify and ran into a failure. The failure is due to Showdown trying to access the file system, based on the existence of require/etc.

My main question is.. why, why is it even doing this? If we look at the code in question..

//
// Automatic Extension Loading (node only):
//

if (typeof module !== 'undefind' && typeof exports !== 'undefined' && typeof require !== 'undefind') {
    var fs = require('fs');

    if (fs) {
        // Search extensions folder
        var extensions = fs.readdirSync((__dirname || '.')+'/extensions').filter(function(file){
            return ~file.indexOf('.js');
        }).map(function(file){
            return file.replace(/\.js$/, '');
        });
        // Load extensions into Showdown namespace
        Showdown.forEach(extensions, function(ext){
            var name = stdExtName(ext);
            Showdown.extensions[name] = require('./extensions/' + ext);
        });
    }
}

Why is fs even being used here? This seems like a complex solution for something that a simple index.js file would handle just fine. On top of that, if an index.js file was used then Browserify would work out of the box.

[selfcontained]

Would be nice to have it work w/ browserify, and there are other options aside from removing all server-side code. If there are truly differences between a browser build and what's used in node, you can provide a separate browser version via the browser property in package.json, which browserify respects. Sometimes it takes some organization in dependencies to make these separations clean.

https://gist.github.com/shtylman/4339901

[leeola]

Well, in this case you wouldn't even need to provide two different versions. This version will work fine in both Browser and Server, it's just that the above code essentially recreates require for absolutely no reason (none that i can figure at least).

For now i'm just concating the js file, but eventually i need to fork this and fix the issue. I can't find a reason for the above filesystem calls :/

[craigspaeth]

+1

[ryanflorence]

This also bums me out, anybody have a fork out there already before I go make one?

[ThomasDeutsch]

+1

[SystemParadox]

This causes it to fail with webmake as well. Wrapping the require in a try-catch would be sufficient as a quick fix. Not sure if that would help browserify or not.

[erikras]

+1

[ryanflorence]

I don't think so, browserify uses static analysis, not runtime evaluation.

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[bhirt-bpl]

+1

[ryanflorence]

Just use marked.

Showdown is clearly not maintained.

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[gaearon]

Same problem with webpack.

[mzabriskie]

Any progress on this front? It's been a year and a half with no response.

[pikeas]

+1 for progress or an update on this...

[aminroosta]

i have applied the @rjmackay pull requrest in my fork :
https://github.com/aminroosta/aminroosta.github.io

no more browserify or webpack errors .

[tivie]

I'm currently looking into this. Showdown will have a major rewriting as keeping up with the perl version doesn't make much sense now. Since we'll probably move each
extension to its own repository, there will be no reason to call fs.

Regardless, the ideal way to approach the problem is abstracting the
library from the platform it's running on, in a similar fashion to
underscore.js method. This will make it compatible with node and browser
out of the box and, consequently, compatible with browserify. It will also
be easier to make the lib compatible with AMD and commonjs.

[zallek]

It's fixed in the showdown2 branch.
Note: You now need to instantiate converter using var converter = new Showdown.Converter();

[tivie]

fixed in eae5f0e