gulp

It turns out that I needed to use gulp-rename and also output the concatenated file first before ‘uglification’. Here’s the code: var gulp = require(‘gulp’), gp_concat = require(‘gulp-concat’), gp_rename = require(‘gulp-rename’), gp_uglify = require(‘gulp-uglify’); gulp.task(‘js-fef’, function(){ return gulp.src([‘file1.js’, ‘file2.js’, ‘file3.js’]) .pipe(gp_concat(‘concat.js’)) .pipe(gulp.dest(‘dist’)) .pipe(gp_rename(‘uglify.js’)) .pipe(gp_uglify()) .pipe(gulp.dest(‘dist’)); }); gulp.task(‘default’, [‘js-fef’], function(){}); Coming from grunt it was a … Read more

You could use gulp-rename to accomplish this: var rename = require(‘gulp-rename’); gulp.src(‘app/client/**/*.html’) .pipe(rename({dirname: ”})) .pipe(gulp.dest(‘dist’));

I’m not sure how you want to use the file names, but one of these should help: If you just want to see the names, you can use something like gulp-debug, which lists the details of the vinyl file. Insert this anywhere you want a list, like so: var gulp = require(‘gulp’), debug = require(‘gulp-debug’); … Read more

It’s a feature programs cannot stay without. You can try yargs. npm install –save-dev yargs You can use it like this: gulp mytask –production –test 1234 In the code, for example: var argv = require(‘yargs’).argv; var isProduction = (argv.production === undefined) ? false : true; For your understanding: > gulp watch console.log(argv.production === undefined); <– … Read more

Since your task might contain asynchronous code you have to signal gulp when your task has finished executing (= “async completion”). In Gulp 3.x you could get away without doing this. If you didn’t explicitly signal async completion gulp would just assume that your task is synchronous and that it is finished as soon as … Read more