watchify produces a much larger output file than directly invoking browserify

[mreinstein]

in my package.json:

"scripts": {
    "watchify": "watchify assets/javascripts/app.coffee -dv --extension .js --extension .coffee -o assets/javascripts/bundle.js",
    "browserify": "browserify assets/javascripts/app.coffee --extension .js --extension .coffee -o assets/javascripts/bundle.js"
  },
"browserify": {
    "transform": [
      "coffeeify",
      "brfs"
    ]
  }

My resulting bundle.js is 2-3X larger with watchify. I'm using watchify@0.6.4 and browserify@3.41.0 . What gives?

[hughsk]

@mreinstein I imagine that would the the --debug flag you're using with watchify, but not browserify. Source maps take up a heap of space.

[mreinstein]

gah, how foolish of me. Sorry about that!

[hughsk]

No worries :)

[mreinstein]

perhaps the -d could also stand for "don't code @ 02:26am