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Browserify Search Request For Help

I have been working on making a search index for npm modules that work with browserify. In order to do this, obviously, for each module on npm, I need to determine whether or not it works with browserify. Easy! I thought. I will run the browserify cli tool on the module browserify node_modules/that_module, and if it exits normally, it works with browserify. So I did that, and implemented a search engine on this premise. Except that, in the search results, I found a lot of modules which, although it "passed the test", they still were useless because simple the act of loading the bundle in a browser would result in a runtime error - a lot of these were a result of the module testing for process.versions.node which doesn't exist in the browserify process shim. Okay, I thought, I'll run the resulting bundle in jsdom, genious! That did reject lots of modules, but it still wasn't good enough. I still got a lot of modules in the search inde