basedir not resolving in dependencies

Correct me if I’m wrong, but setting basedir, I expect to be able to require relatively to this folder, inside the dependencies.

I have a very simple example that I cannot make work, given the following file structure:

js/app.js
js/src/models/Person.js
js/src/views/PersonView.js

(Note: app.js requires PersonView.js)

I would expect to be able to require Person.js from within PersonView.js like so:

var Person = require('./src/models/Person');

Instead of the normal method, relatively to process.cwd():

var Person = require('../models/Person');

But running bundle…

var b = browserify('./app', {basedir: './js'});
b.bundle().pipe(process.stdout);

… I get the following error:

Error: module "./src/models/Person" not found from "/Users/..some path.../js/src/views/PersonView.js"

Any hint/help would be much appreciated.

[eightyfive]

@bstst You made my day! @substack How come this is not documented? Can we rely on it?

[eightyfive]

The paths option is documented in browser-resolve. That makes sense.