how base option affects gulp.src & gulp.dest

(You’re not looking at the official gulp documentation. http://github.com/arvindr21/gulp is just some guy’s fork of the gulpjs github repo. The official repo is http://github.com/gulpjs/gulp/ where the base option is indeed documented.) To answer your question: If you don’t specify the base option yourself, then everything before the first glob in your gulp.src() paths is automatically … Read more

Using Gulp to Concatenate and Uglify files

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

Get the current file name in gulp.src()

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

What is the ** glob character?

It’s almost the same as the single asterisk but may consist of multiple directory levels. In other words, while /x/*/y will match entries like: /x/a/y /x/b/y and so on (with only one directory level in the wildcard section), the double asterisk /x/**/y will also match things like: /x/any/number/of/levels/y with the concept of “any number of … Read more

Pass Parameter to Gulp Task

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