Support swapping out packages rather than files.

[terinjokes]

Right now browserify-swap replaces files that match a regex, so to replace underscore you'll have something like

{
  "all": {
    "underscore.js$": "lodash"
  }
}

Since the package structure is not usually part of the public API, it would be nice to be able to replace based on package name, like with the browser field. This would become:

{
  "all": {
    "underscore": "lodash"
  }
}

[thlorenz]

Interesting idea, Could you fork and experiment how that could be done?
Would love to merge a PR that adds this feature.

[terinjokes]

Sure. On my list of tasks to do. 😄

[chrisabrams]

@terinjokes good idea!

[thlorenz]

Closing, but looking forward to PR that adds this.

However we should investigate if some of this could be better solved with browserify plugins.
Keep in mind that plugins didn't exist when I implemented this initially.

[TomOne]

This feature would be great.

[scamden]

+1

[ljharb]

Personally I'd be very interested in only this feature - ie, I want to swap out npm-installed packages, but i'd never want to swap out local files where I have full control of the code.