I'm using gulp-rev to build static files that I can set to never expire. I'd like to replace all references to the generated files in index.html to these renamed files, but I can't seem to find anything that does that like Grunt with usemin.
As far as I can tell right now, I have some options.
- Use gulp-usemin2, which depends on gulp-rev. When I go to search Gulp plugins, it says that gulp-usemin2 does too much so I should use gulp-useref instead, but I can't configure gulp-ref to use gulp-rev's output.
- Write my own plugin the replace the blocks (scripts & styles) in index.html (and in the CSS) with the generated files.
Any ideas? I don't see why this little use case should be the only thing in my way to replacing Grunt.
Rather than trying to solve this problem multiple gulp steps (which gulp-rev seems to want you to do), I've forked gulp-rev to gulp-rev-all to solve this usecase in one gulp plugin.
For my personal usecase I wanted to rev absolutely everything but as someone else raised an feature request, there should be the ability to exclude certain files like index.html. This will be implemented soon.
I've just written a gulp plugin to do this, it works especially well with gulp-rev and gulp-useref.
The usage will depend on how you've set things up, but it should look something like:
gulp.task("index", function() {
var jsFilter = filter("**/*.js");
var cssFilter = filter("**/*.css");
return gulp.src("src/index.html")
.pipe(useref.assets())
.pipe(jsFilter)
.pipe(uglify()) // Process your javascripts
.pipe(jsFilter.restore())
.pipe(cssFilter)
.pipe(csso()) // Process your CSS
.pipe(cssFilter.restore())
.pipe(rev()) // Rename *only* the concatenated files
.pipe(useref.restore())
.pipe(useref())
.pipe(revReplace()) // Substitute in new filenames
.pipe(gulp.dest('public'));
});
I have confronted the same problem, I tried gulp-rev-all, but it has some path problem, not very free to use.
So I figure out an solution, use gulp-rev and gulp-replace:
At first I have a replace symbol in my html(js, css) files
<link rel="stylesheet" href="{{{css/common.css}}}" />
<script src="{{{js/lib/jquery.js}}}"></script>
in css files
background: url({{{img/logo.png}}})
Second after some compile task, use gulp-replace to replace all the static files reference:
take stylus compile in development as example:
gulp.task('dev-stylus', function() {
return gulp.src(['./fe/css/**/*.styl', '!./fe/css/**/_*.styl'])
.pipe(stylus({
use: nib()
}))
.pipe(replace(/\{\{\{(\S*)\}\}\}/g, '/static/build/$1'))
.pipe(gulp.dest('./static/build/css'))
.pipe(refresh());
});
In production environment, use gulp-rev to generate rev-manifest.json
gulp.task('release-build', ['release-stylus', 'release-js', 'release-img'], function() {
return gulp.src(['./static/build/**/*.css',
'./static/build/**/*.js',
'./static/build/**/*.png',
'./static/build/**/*.gif',
'./static/build/**/*.jpg'],
{base: './static/build'})
.pipe(gulp.dest('./static/tmp'))
.pipe(rev())
.pipe(gulp.dest('./static/tmp'))
.pipe(rev.manifest())
.pipe(gulp.dest('./static'));
});
Then use gulp-replace to replace the refs in static files with rev-manifest.json:
gulp.task('css-js-replace', ['img-replace'], function() {
return gulp.src(['./static/tmp/**/*.css', './static/tmp/**/*.js'])
.pipe(replace(/\{\{\{(\S*)\}\}\}/g, function(match, p1) {
var manifest = require('./static/rev-manifest.json');
return '/static/dist/'+manifest[p1]
}))
.pipe(gulp.dest('./static/dist'));
});
This helped me gulp-html-replace.
<!-- build:js -->
<script src="js/player.js"></script>
<script src="js/monster.js"></script>
<script src="js/world.js"></script>
<!-- endbuild -->
var gulp = require('gulp');
var htmlreplace = require('gulp-html-replace');
gulp.task('default', function() {
gulp.src('index.html')
.pipe(htmlreplace({
'css': 'styles.min.css',
'js': 'js/bundle.min.js'
}))
.pipe(gulp.dest('build/'));
});
You could do it with gulp-useref like this.
var gulp = require('gulp'),
useref = require('gulp-useref'),
filter = require('gulp-filter'),
uglify = require('gulp-uglify'),
minifyCss = require('gulp-minify-css'),
rev = require('gulp-rev');
gulp.task('html', function () {
var jsFilter = filter('**/*.js');
var cssFilter = filter('**/*.css');
return gulp.src('app/*.html')
.pipe(useref.assets())
.pipe(jsFilter)
.pipe(uglify())
.pipe(rev())
.pipe(jsFilter.restore())
.pipe(cssFilter)
.pipe(minifyCss())
.pipe(rev())
.pipe(cssFilter.restore())
.pipe(useref.restore())
.pipe(useref())
.pipe(gulp.dest('dist'));
});
or you could even do it this way:
gulp.task('html', function () {
var jsFilter = filter('**/*.js');
var cssFilter = filter('**/*.css');
return gulp.src('app/*.html')
.pipe(useref.assets())
.pipe(rev())
.pipe(jsFilter)
.pipe(uglify())
.pipe(jsFilter.restore())
.pipe(cssFilter)
.pipe(minifyCss())
.pipe(cssFilter.restore())
.pipe(useref.restore())
.pipe(useref())
.pipe(gulp.dest('dist'));
});
The problem is updating the asset paths in the html with the new rev file paths. gulp-useref doesn't do that.