Does Simplifyify have a programmatic API (for use in Gulp, Grunt, etc.)?

[JamesMessinger]

This question was asked by @nmccready on another issue. I'm answering it here so it's easy for other people to find as well.

The answer is, "Yes!". Simplifyify does have a programmatic API. You aren't limited to using its command-line interface. In fact, the CLI is simply a very thin wrapper around the programmatic API. Here's the API, and here's sample code. Basically, you just pass an array of strings (file paths and/or glob patterns) and an options param. You get back an EventEmitter, which fires all the Browserify & Watchify events.

var simplifyify = require("simplifyify");

gulp.task("browserify", function(done) {
  simplifyify("lib/*.module.js", 
    { 
        outfile: "dist/*.bundle.js", 
        debug: true,
        minify: true 
    })
    .on("end", function() {
        // Finished successfully!
        done();
    })
    .on("error", function(err) {
        // Something went wrong
        done(err);
    });
});

[JamesMessinger]

I'm leaving this issue open until I get around to documenting the API in the README

[nmccready]

ty

[JamesMessinger]

👍 sure thing. Sorry it took so long to get around to it. The joys of being the sole maintainer of several open-source projects :-/

[nmccready]

I sure know how that goes; not fun when it is large at scale

[nmccready]

I'm trying to remember how I got here; this is the workaround sourcemaps to get the raw js to debug unlike browserify right? I

[JamesMessinger]

yeah. it extracts the sourcemaps to external files, so they work better with most debugging tools

[nmccready]

Cool; yeah I need to do this as I was waiting on your reply; tired of debugging coffee in the browser.