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Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
javascript, react
Domain
build-system

Research direction

Start with the gulpfile pipeline using browserify, brfs, reactify, and factor-bundle, then inspect the generated common.min.js and main.min.js loaded by viewer.html. Reproduce the Chrome extension error and trace the failing module-reference line. Done means factor-bundle output loads without the undefined property error and replaces the former bundle.min.js behavior.

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Description

I am using browserify with brfs in a Chrome extension. My gulpfile looks like this:

gulp.task('browserify', function() {
  return browserify(paths.main)
    .transform(reactify)
    .transform({global: true }, 'brfs')
    .plugin('factor-bundle', {outputs: ['build/main.min.js', 'build/background.min.js']})
    .bundle()
    .pipe(source('common.min.js'))
    .pipe(gulp.dest('build/'))
})

In the bundle loaded into the Chrome extension, I have a viewer.html page, into which I have plopped:

<script defer src="../../common.min.js"></script>
<script defer src="../../main.min.js"></script>

In place of the previously working bundle.min.js. Now, however, on load, main.min.js no longer works, throwing a Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property '0' of undefined error. The line it points to looks like this:

{"react/lib/ExecutionEnvironment":682,"react/lib/invariant":788}],280:[function(require,module,exports){
arguments[4][278][0].apply(exports,arguments)
},

I'm afraid I have no idea why this is happening, at all, to the point of not knowing how to even name this issue. I'm going to go back to not using factor-bundle for now. I'll have keep this issue in a branch, but I'm stumped.

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