see if we can make aliasify work

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ref @alterx's choo starter project:

https://github.com/alterx/choo-browserify-beaker-starter/blob/8dafff279ce75f536dff4bbc5d80c0d7bb797c42/index.js#L21-L31

i think aliasify looks for require() calls in the source and rewrites them, so i'm not sure what we can do to fix this. worth investigating anyway.