browserify trying to include dev dependencies about karma-typescript

[erikbarke]

I managed to workaround the ws issue by ignoring it in the bundler (same ugly workaround as in the webpack issue you you linked):

karmaTypescriptConfig: {
    bundlerOptions: {
       ignoredModuleNames: ["ws"]
    }
}

Now the integration test crashes on socket.iotrying to load package.json from socket.io-client, I'll have to fix that.

This is an age-old bundler conundrum; the bundler blindly parses all dependencies recursively looking for the word require without knowing in what context a module is required...

[erikbarke]

@moshmage, socket.io uses the file system doing stuff like var read = require('fs').readFileSync; and read(require.resolve('socket.io-client/dist/socket.io.min.js'), 'utf-8'); which means it can't be run in a browser with Karma and karma-typescript 😞

A lot of bugs have been fixed and new functionality has been added thanks to this issue, but this is as far as we get, I can't run your example project in a browser due to the nature of socket.io.