how to use the exclude in browserify? - browserify

Question

in browserify-handbook, exclude part,it gives an example of using the exclude:
$ npm install jquery
$ browserify -r jquery --standalone jquery > jquery-bundle.js
then we want to just require('jquery') in a main.js:
var $ = require('jquery');
$(window).click(function () { document.body.bgColor = 'red' });
defering to the jquery dist bundle so that we can write:
<script src="jquery-bundle.js"></script>
<script src="bundle.js"></script>
and not have the jquery definition show up in bundle.js, then while compiling the main.js, you can --exclude jquery:
browserify main.js --exclude jquery > bundle.js
but when i try to run this sample,i got an error of "Uncaught Error: Cannot find module 'jquery'"
i know if i use standalone,i can just use 'jquery' as a global variable, but it's not modular, so i still want to do as the sample using "require('jquery')", so,what shall i do to achieve it?

Answer 1

I finally got this functionality working using information found here:
https://truongtx.me/2014/03/20/browserify-bring-nodejs-modules-to-browser/
I wonder if the docs you found are out of date now...
The working solution in the above link uses the '-x' option ('external') rather than the '-u' option ('exclude')
The linked article also demonstrates how to set this up using gulp.
I'm pasting the relevant content from the above-linked web site:
$ browserify -r foo.js > foo-out.js
$ browserify -r d3-browserify > d3-browserify-out.js
For main.js
$ browserify -x ./foo.js -x d3-browserify main.js > main-bundle.js
In the browser, you need to include all those 3 files
<script src="foo-out.js"></script>
<script src="d3-browserify-out.js"></script>
<script src="main-bundle.js"></script>
Update: The link I posted does not seem to be working so I'm including my current gulpfile.js. I'm new to gulp and javascript, so there may be a better way to do this stuff. But this current setup does basically work:
var browserify = require('browserify');
var gulp = require('gulp');
var watchify = require('watchify');
var source = require('vinyl-source-stream');
var buffer = require('vinyl-buffer');
var jshint = require('gulp-jshint');
var uglify = require('gulp-uglify');
var sourcemaps = require('gulp-sourcemaps');
var gutil = require('gulp-util');
var del = require('del');
const PATH_OPTS = {
src_dir: './client/js/src/',
main_file_path: './client/js/src/main.js',
output_file_name: 'disco.js',
output_dir: './public/js/',
common_lib_file_name: 'common.js'
};
const LIBS = ['paper', 'jquery', 'tocktimer'];
gulp.task("clientlib", function() {
var bundler = browserify({
debug: false
});
LIBS.forEach(function(lib) {
bundler.require(lib);
});
bundler.bundle()
.pipe(source(PATH_OPTS.common_lib_file_name))
// uglify seems to need a buffered stream...
.pipe(buffer())
.pipe(uglify())
.on('error', gutil.log)
.pipe(gulp.dest(PATH_OPTS.output_dir));
});
gulp.task('client', function () {
var bundler = browserify({
debug: true,
cache: {},
packageCache: {},
fullPaths: true
});
bundler = watchify(bundler);
bundler.on('update', function(){
bundle(bundler);
});
bundler.on('log', function(msg) {
gutil.log(msg);
});
bundler.add(PATH_OPTS.main_file_path);
LIBS.forEach(function(lib) {
bundler.external(require.resolve(lib, { expose: lib }));
});
return bundle(bundler);
});
function bundle(bundler) {
return bundler.bundle()
.pipe(source(PATH_OPTS.output_file_name))
.pipe(buffer())
.pipe(sourcemaps.init({loadMaps: true}))
// Add transformation tasks to the pipeline here.
.pipe(uglify())
.on('error', gutil.log)
.pipe(sourcemaps.write('./'))
.pipe(gulp.dest(PATH_OPTS.output_dir));
}
gulp.task('lint', function() {
return gulp.src(PATH_OPTS.src_dir + '*.js')
.pipe(jshint())
.pipe(jshint.reporter('default'));
});
gulp.task('clean', function () {
return del([
PATH_OPTS.output_dir + '/*.*'
]);
});
gulp.task('full', ['lint', 'clean', 'clientlib', 'client']);
gulp.task('default', ['lint', 'client']);