Generating source maps from browserify using grunt

Question

I have followed the instructions here: https://www.npmjs.org/package/grunt-browserify, to try and set up source maps for browserify on grunt. The options for browserify in my gr

Answer 1

By default, browserify generates inline source maps as a comment in bundle.js. Browserify's README suggests using exorcist if you want to extract them to a separate file:

$ browserify main.js --debug | exorcist bundle.js.map > bundle.js 

And grunt-extract-sourcemap rolls this up in a grunt task

Answer 2

use browserifyOptions instead of bundleOptions

browserify: {
   options: {
      browserifyOptions: {
         debug: true
      }
   },
   ...
}