browserify

[boneskull]

there's some stuff in the works to move Mocha way from browserify and onto webpack, but not sure when that'll land.

in the meantime, I'm struggling to get rewiremock working in a browserify bundle via karma. it's throwing an exception because require.resolve does not exist. first, it throws because of the node-libs-browser module:

  Uncaught TypeError: require.resolve is not a function
  at /var/folders/74/theKashey/rewiremock/node_modules/node-libs-browser/index.js:1:1 <- /var/folders/74/p0gxrmy93fq88nm66cs7z42h0000gn/T/55824eb469904ee97753db535d0bc15b.browserify.js:46563:31

Even if that's addressed somehow, it will certainly throw in the two other places that use require.resolve in the codebase (nested.js & mockModule.js).

For this to work, I'm going to guess you'd want to publish a browser bundle and reference it in the browser field of package.json--or otherwise point to a non-bundled, browser-specific implementation. But that's just my guess.

But... this may be a "WONTFIX" for you--and I get it. Just something I ran into and thought it wouldn't hurt to mention.

[boneskull]

(Browserify itself will replace references to require.resolve with its own resolve module, but it is nontrivial to try to create a browserify bundle for a dependency)

[theKashey]

• node-libs-browser is used only for webpack (however should be used for mocha case as well), but as long as all the stuff imported statically - it's causing issues for mocha. I am not sure which approach is better here.

• require.resolve is not a problem. It's better to call them "leftovers" - in both cases it's used to self-wipe - delete require.cache[require.resolve(__filename)];, and there is a better function for it.

[theKashey]

@boneskull - please try that branch.

[boneskull]

I get

Uncaught Error: Rewiremock: there is no "parent module". Is there two HotModuleReplacementPlugins?

This happens when my test file does require('rewiremock/node') or require('rewiremock')

[boneskull]

It'd also (theoretically) work if there was a "globals" bundle of rewiremock available. Then I could make it work in Karma by throwing it in a <script> tag, and browserify wouldn't need to know about it.

[boneskull]

(That branch works when running in node, just not in karma/karma-browserify)

[theKashey]

Uncaught Error: Rewiremock: there is no "parent module"

Sounds like a problem with browserify module system, if it even exists.

So:

• Make module.parent available. browserify/browserify#323 - support for parent, merged in 2013
• --bare needs to support module.parent so that node modules work correctly browserify/browserify#976 - according to this one yes --bare already does that!, year 2014
• Implement module.parent so Socket.io can work browserify/browserify#41 - socket.io needed module.parent and there is none (year 2015, where did it go?), but decided to change their code. The outcome of the issue is not clear.
• however expose module.parent as in node browserify/browser-pack#47 is not merged

Gonna double check how browserify works today...

[theKashey]

Look like there is no implementation of a real module system, as long as it's not really needed in "runtime".
Is it possible for you not to use browserify, but use webpack? 99% of the functionality works there.

[boneskull]

K, thanks for looking in to this. I think Mocha is moving to webpack anyway. not sure if you meant to leave this open.

[boneskull]

I was wrong; we're not going to use webpack--looks like we're going to use rollup instead. This doesn't mean we're going to adopt ESM modules, though, given the current set of challenges there.