How to ignore libraries in browserify programmatic api

How to ignore libraries in browserify programmatic api

Assume the below code is found in bundler.js and tracing entry.js leads to
var B = require('backbone'); (Backbone is a dependency installed as
declared in package.json).
var browserify = require('browserify');
var bundle = new browserify();
bundle.add('entry.js');
bundle.bundle({
noParse: ['backbone']
});
Executing this bundler yields a stream that contains the original backbone
source. Based on browserify's command line options I expected it to skip
backbone alltogether.
Is it possible to use --noparse=FILE as a configuration option in this
application of the api?