gulp-browserify-experiments

gistfile1.js

var $ = require('gulp-load-plugins')();
var reactify = require('reactify');
var envify = require('envify');
var browserify = require('browserify');
var watchify = require('watchify');

//watchify with source maps
gulp.task('watchify', function() {

   var w = watchify({entries: ['./src/js/init.jsx'],
                    extensions:['.jsx']});
   w.transform(envify)
    .transform(reactify)
    .on('update', rebundle)
    .on('time', function (time) {
    $.util.log(time);
  });
  function rebundle() {
    w.bundle({debug: true})
    .on('error', $.util.log)
    .pipe(source('scripts.js'))
    .pipe(gulp.dest('./build'));
  }
  rebundle();
});

//browserify-transforms work with gulp vinyls
var vtransform = require('vinyl-transform');

gulp.task('transform', function() {

  gulp.src('./src/js/init.jsx')
      .pipe(vtransform(reactify))
      .pipe(vtransform(envify))
      .pipe(gulp.dest('./weird'))
      
});

//what I'm trying to do..

gulp.task('hope', function() {
    gulp.src('./src/js/init.jsx')
        .pipe($.tap(function(file, t) {
              browserify({entries: [file.path],
                extensions:['.jsx']
              })
              .transform(envify)
              .transform(reactify)
              .bundle({debug: true})
              .on('error', $.util.log)
              .pipe(source('scripts.js'))
              .pipe(gulp.dest('./why'))//I want to take this out of the pipe..
        }))
})