Update version of events bundled

Browserify currently uses events@^2.0.0, but events has an updated version 3.0.0 to support the introduction of the off() method introduced in Node v10. Is there a way to override the version of events that browserify uses for bundling? I also think browserify should bump the version used on package.json, but note that events@3.0.0 no longer supports ES5 shims out of the box.

[goto-bus-stop]

If you install events@3 with npm you can do

browserify -r events/:events

The events/ bit forces browserify to use your locally installed version, and :events aliases it to “events”, replacing it throughout the bundle.

Node.js treated .off as a major version bump, so I did the same for events.

There is a PR to update our dependency at https://github.com/browserify/browserify/pull/1839 that i’ve been meaning to batch with different changes, so we don’t churn through browserify major versions too much. I haven’t gotten around to those for a long time though so we should just go ahead with v17 soon with the PRs that are already there

[patrickroberts]

I did switch to rollup, but I actually encountered the same issue there with the version of events that rollup-plugin-node-builtins uses, so I ended up reverting off() to removeListener() anyway. I’m glad to see at least this issue was not simply some stupidity on my part.