So I have been trying out Gulp to see how it compares to Grunt as far as speed and I am pretty impressed with the results but I have one thing I don't know how to do in Gulp.
So I have this gulp task to minify HTML:
gulp.task('html-minify', function() {
var files = [
relativePaths.webPath + '/*.html',
relativePaths.webPath + '/components/**/*.html',
relativePaths.webPath + '/' + relativePaths.appPath + '/components/**/*.html'
];
var changedFiles = buildMetaData.getChangedFiles(files);
//TODO: needs to execute only after successful run of the task
buildMetaData.addBuildMetaDataFiles(changedFiles);
buildMetaData.writeFile();
return gulp.src(changedFiles, {
base: relativePaths.webPath
})
.pipe(filelog())
.pipe(minifyHtml({
empty: true,
quotes: true,
conditionals: true,
comments: true
}))
.pipe(gulp.dest(relativePaths.webPath + '/' + relativePaths.appPath + '/' + relativePaths.buildPath));
});
The buildMetaData object has custom functionality that I need and why I can't use plugins like gulp-changed. What I am trying to figure out is how (if possible) to run a block of code after the minify is done process all files and it run successfully. Is something like this possible with gulp?
You could just make a task which depends on html-minify
:
gulp.task('other-task', ['html-minify'], function() {
//stuff
});
You could also listen for the stream end
event inside the html-minify
task:
gulp.task('html-minify', function(done) {
var files = [
relativePaths.webPath + '/*.html',
relativePaths.webPath + '/components/**/*.html',
relativePaths.webPath + '/' + relativePaths.appPath + '/components/**/*.html'
];
var changedFiles = buildMetaData.getChangedFiles(files);
//TODO: needs to execute only after successful run of the task
buildMetaData.addBuildMetaDataFiles(changedFiles);
buildMetaData.writeFile();
var stream = gulp.src(changedFiles, {
base: relativePaths.webPath
})
.pipe(filelog())
.pipe(minifyHtml({
empty: true,
quotes: true,
conditionals: true,
comments: true
}))
.pipe(gulp.dest(relativePaths.webPath + '/' + relativePaths.appPath + '/' + relativePaths.buildPath));
stream.on('end', function() {
//run some code here
done();
});
stream.on('error', function(err) {
done(err);
});
});
You can also merge two streams with with event-stream. This example takes input from the command line with yargs, builds a config and then merges the two:
var enviroment = argv.env || 'development';
gulp('build', function () {
var config = gulp.src('config/' + enviroment + '.json')
.on('end', function() { gutil.log(warn('Configured ' + enviroment + ' enviroment.')); })
.pipe(ngConstant({name: 'app.config'}));
var scripts = gulp.src('js/*');
return es.merge(config, scripts)
.pipe(concat('app.js'))
.pipe(gulp.dest('app/dist'))
.on('error', function() { });
});
As well as the standard before tasks, you can also wait for a previous task to complete. This is useful when you need to pass arguments to the before task (which gulp does not currently support):
var tasks = {
before: function(arg){
// do stuff
},
build: function() {
tasks.before(arg).on('end', function(){ console.log('do stuff') });
}
};
gulp('build', tasks.build);
GULP V3
Using dependency tasks:
gulp.task('qr-task', ['md-task', 'js-task'], function() {
gulp.src(src + '/*.qr')
.pipe(plugin())
.pipe(gulp.dest(dist));
});
Although main task starts after all of dependent tasks but they (dependent tasks) will run in parallel (all at once), so don't assume that the tasks will start/finish in order (md and js run in parallel before qr).
If you want exact order for several tasks and don't want to split them you can use async & await to achieve this:
function Async(p) {
return new Promise((res, rej) => p.on('error', err => rej(err)).on('end', () => res()));
}
gulp.task('task', async () => {
await Async(gulp.src(src + '/*.md')
.pipe(plugin())
.pipe(gulp.dest(dist)));
await Async(gulp.src(src + '/*.js')
.pipe(plugin())
.pipe(gulp.dest(dist)));
await Async(gulp.src(src + '/*.qr')
.pipe(plugin())
.pipe(gulp.dest(dist)));
});
GULP V4
in gulp 4 the old dependency pattern is removed and you will get this error:
AssertionError [ERR_ASSERTION]: Task function must be specified
instead you must use gulp.parallel and gulp.series (which provides correct execution of tasks):
gulp.task('qr-task', gulp.series('md-task', 'js-task', function(done) {
gulp.src(src + '/*.qr')
.pipe(plugin())
.pipe(gulp.dest(dist));
done();
}));
for more detail visit https://github.com/gulpjs/gulp/blob/4.0/docs/API.md