Browserify with require('fs')

html node.js require html5-filesystem browserify
Fred Finkle picture Fred Finkle · May 20, 2013 · Viewed 24.1k times · Source

I was trying to use browserify on a file that uses the fs object. When I browserify it, the call to require('fs') doesn't get transformed and require returns {}.

Is there any workaround for this? I've seen some suggestions on stackoverlow and elsewhere, but none seem to be fully realized.

I actually hoped to create a google web packaged app using browserify for a class I teach.

Thanks in advance.

Answer

substack picture substack · Jun 6, 2013

If you want to inline file contents from fs.readFileSync() calls, you can use brfs:

var fs = require('fs');
var src = fs.readFileSync(__dirname + '/file.txt');

then do:

browserify -t brfs main.js > bundle.js

and src will be set to the contents of file.txt at compile time.

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