Does not work in single var statement defining multiple variables

[jgillich]

The example provided in the README works fine, but the following does not:

var fs = require('fs'),
    html = fs.readFileSync('./robot.html', 'utf8');
console.log(html);

// Compiled to:
var html = fs.readFileSync('./robot.html', 'utf8');
console.log(html);

I am not sure if this is a browserify limitation or an actual bug though.

[avetisk]

Actually it seems to be linked to this issue:

var fs = require('fs');
window.fs = fs;

This will throw an error:

Error: unsupported type for static module: AssignmentExpression
at expression:

  window.fs = fs

This seems to prevent request from working.

[jgillich]

@avetisk I don't think these are related. Why are you trying to reassign fs? It isn't available at runtime anyway.

[avetisk]

Actually, I'm not, I was just monkey-testing to find out why request wasn't working.

Within request, fs === {} thus I'm getting a undefined is not a function error in mime.js :/

[jgillich]

That's because mime doesn't support brfs: broofa/mime#61 (comment)

[avetisk]

ARG.

[ghost]

I made a bunch of progress toward the multi-var use-case upstream in static-module 0.0.9 but your particular use-case still doesn't work.

[avetisk]

@substack do you have an idea where the bug comes from?

[mattdesl]

Testing brfs@1.4.0 with the following and not able to reproduce this bug:

var fs = require('fs'),
  data = fs.readFileSync('./data.txt', 'utf8')
console.log(data)