Browser support

[mattdesl]

Trying to get this working in the browser, and then later hihat for debugging/breakpoints/etc.

After browserifying the demo in the readme, I get the following:

Uncaught ReferenceError: setImmediate is not defined

relevant line

(weird cause I thought browserify would have shimmed this)

[sindresorhus]

Maybe open an issue on Browserify about shimming setImmediate?

[mattdesl]

Found a bit more discussion upstream: browserify/insert-module-globals#40

[sindresorhus]

I'll give it a week, but I doubt anything will happen there...

I guess I can add https://github.com/sindresorhus/set-immediate-shim if that is the only thing blocking it from being used in the browser.

[Qix-]

Isn't it just a fancy way of doing setTimeout(fn, 0) or Window.requestAnimationFrame?

[sindresorhus]

@Qix- It's faster than setTimeout.

http://www.nczonline.net/blog/2013/07/09/the-case-for-setimmediate/

[tomek-he-him]

@vdemedes thanks for the fix! The setImmediate error is busted.

But now I’ve got another bastard there:

Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property 'write' of undefined

– coming from https://github.com/kevva/squeak/blob/v1.2.0/index.js#L144.

[vadimdemedes]

@tomekwi You're welcome!

I see what the problem is, will try to not forget and fix it!

[tomek-he-him]

Great! I can’t wait to check out this awesome trio: hihat, ava and quixote!

quixote doesn’t go well with tape, because it’s an assertion library. So I end up with lots of glue code in tests and lose the pretty format of error messages.

[Qix-]

Another cool tool, quixote. Thanks for the link 💃

[mattdesl]

In the browser process.stdout doesn't exist and browserify doesn't try to shim it. Tape uses the following to print in the browser:
https://github.com/substack/tape/blob/master/lib/default_stream.js

[Qix-]

Shimming process.stdout would be simple, assuming somewhere along the way you write a newline.