Let changed-bundle
plugin for watchify, provides to re bundle only when files changed.
npm install changed-bundle
In your task runner like gulp, add this plugin to browserify:
var b = browserify({
entries: ['entry.js'],
cache: {},
packageCache: {},
plugin: [watchify],
})
.plugin('changed-bundle', {
label: 'LABEL' // optional. distinction with other skip messages
});
$ watchify entry.js -v -p [changed-bundle --label LABEL] > bundle.js
first time bundle is output bundle file.
567 bytes written to bundle.js (0.12 seconds)
bundle from the second time, skip re bundle if no change in the files.
*** LABEL: skip write to bundle file (0.01 seconds) ***
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