Use paths browserify option with mochify

[gryzzly]

Hey!

I'm using the following in the browserify config:

browserify(
  entries: src + '/scripts/Main.js',
  dest: dest + '/js',
  outputName: 'Main.js',
  paths: ['./app/scripts/']
)

And I use the following in mochify config:

mochify('./test/**/*.js', {
    reporter : 'spec',
    paths: ['./app/scripts/']
})

However, the paths option doesn't seem to be picked up. How can I pass browserify option to browserify?

Thanks!

[mantoni]

Thanks for reporting this. This option isn't supported yet. Should be easy to add. Care to look into it?

[gryzzly]

@mantoni thanks for the prompt reply. Not urgent for me right now, so I'll try to look into it over next couple of days.

[mantoni]

I just had a look at this and noticed that the paths option is not in the Browserify API documentation. If it's not an officially supported option, I would rather not add it to Mochify. What do you think?

[wjordan]

The browserify maintainer strongly recommends against using the paths option:

that approach is a deprecated part of the module system in node and browserify, so it could stop working at any time.

Instead of adding entries to paths, the recommended approach looks to be adding a symlink in ./node_modules/ pointing to any local modules you want to reference without using relative requires.

[mantoni]

Thanks for the clarification @wjordan

[wjordan]

Slight update- it looks like the paths option was just now added to the Browserify documentation (see PR #1167), so I guess it's no longer considered to be deprecated/unsupported. Here's the added text:

opts.paths is an array of directories that browserify searches when looking
for modules which are not referenced using relative path. Can be absolute or
relative to basedir. Equivalent of setting NODE_PATH environmental variable
when calling browserify command.

[mantoni]

Cool. Reopening. PR welcome in that case :)

[mantoni]

The paths config and the corresponding --path command line switch where just introduced in the fresh 2.17.0 release.