Transforms with symlinks in node_modules?

I’ve recently started to attempt to use the symlink trick https://github.com/substack/browserify-handbook#symlink to get rid of those pesky …/…/.

To do this I added a symlink in my node_modules folder to a common module using something like this:

cd node_modules && ln -nsf ../app/common/js common

In my app I can now do:

var common = require('common');

and all is well.

However, if any of those files contain something to be transformed (I’m using reactify and envify) – then it does not apply the transform to those files.

Is there some additional option I need to be passing to explicitly tell it to run transforms on those modules?

This is using browserify: 6.3.2

[scamden]

@pselden it’s not pretty but running your transform with {global : true} worked for me

[scamden]

agree!

On 21 November 2014 11:04, Jesse Tane [e-mail] wrote:

Cool, aliasify looks like a nicer workaround than the duplicitous package.json files, though I do wish browserify handled this natively!

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