How to ignore libraries in browserify programmatic api

backbone.js, browserify, node.js

Solution

As you can see from here the `--noparse` option provided on the command line is passed to the `browserify({ })` call.

So in order to tell browserify to not parse jquery and three.js you have to pass the full path to your jquery and three.js files.

Example:

browserify({
  noParse: [
   require.resolve('./vendor/jquery'),
   require.resolve('./vendor/three')
  ]
})
.require(require.resolve('./entry.js'), { entry: true })
.bundle();

Problem

Assume the below code is found in `bundler.js` and tracing `entry.js` leads to `var B = require('backbone');` (Backbone is a dependency installed as declared in `package.json`). ``` var browserify = require('browserify'); var bundle = new browserify(); bundle.add('entry.js'); bundle.bundle({ noParse: ['backbone'] }); ``` Executing this bundler yields a stream that contains the original `backbone` source. Based on browserify's command line options I expected it to skip backbone alltogether. Reading through the source, I expected perhaps the following would work: ``` var browserify = require('browserify'); var bundle = new browserify({ noParse: ['backbone'] }); bundle.add('entry.js'); bundle.bundle(); ``` Though `backbone` source still appears in the stream output. Is it possible to use `--noparse=FILE` as a configuration option in this application of the api?

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