Passing options to transforms

[refractalize]

Some transforms allow options to be passed to them, and this is supported in browserify command line and API, and now in browserify-middlware.

See readme for docs.

transform: [["transform", {option1: true, ...}], "other-transform"]

[ForbesLindesay]

You can already do this fairly easily by just having:

var transform = require('transform');
options.transform = [[function (file) {
  return transform(file, {option1: true, ...});
}], "other-transform"]

It might be worth considering dedicated support though, I'm not sure.

[refractalize]

Good point, I didn't know you could do that so easily. But maybe that's the point, perhaps dedicated and documented support would be more obvious?

[refractalize]

Any further comment on this? I understand you can do it as above, but having explicit (and documented) support would make it easier for others - as does the browserify API itself. What do you think?

[suy]

Hi. FWIW, I've successfully managed to do this to pass options to a transform:

var browserify = require('browserify-middleware');
browserify.settings({
    transform: [function(file) {
        return require('jstify')(file, { engine: 'lodash' });
    }]
});
app.use('/app.js', browserify('./client/app.js'));

If you don't think the change to the code is necessary, I can try to submit a hint in the docs, since I think is non-obvious as of right now.

Thank you for the project. Is been quite helpful.

[suy]

Thank you!