I want to compile JavaScript files with Gulp.
I have a src
directory where all scripts are present with .js
extension. I want all scripts to be compiled separately and placed into a destination directory (dist
) with the same filename as the original.
Consider this example:
src/jquery.js:
/**
* @require ../../vendor/jquery/dist/jquery.js
*/
src/application.js:
/**
* @require ../../vendor/angular/angular.js
* @require ../../vendor/ngprogress-lite/ngprogress-lite.js
* @require ../../vendor/restangular/dist/restangular.js
* @require ../../vendor/lodash/dist/lodash.underscore.js
* @require ../../vendor/angular-input-locker/dist/angular-input-locker.js
* @require ../../vendor/angular-route/angular-route.js
*/
(function(document, angular) {
'use strict';
var moduleName = 'waApp';
angular.module(moduleName, [
// Some more code here.
;
// Bootstrapping application when DOM is ready.
angular.element(document).ready(function() {
angular.bootstrap(document, [moduleName]);
});
})(document, angular);
I'm using gulp-resolve-dependencies to resolve dependencies specified in the header of each source JavaScript file.
My gulpfile.js is looking like this:
//==============//
// Dependencies //
//==============//
var gulp = require('gulp');
var pathModule = require('path');
var resolveDependencies = require('gulp-resolve-dependencies');
var concat = require('gulp-concat');
var uglify = require('gulp-uglify');
//=======//
// TASKS //
//=======//
gulp.task('build:scripts', function(callback) {
return gulp.src('scripts/*.js')
.pipe(resolveDependencies({
pattern: /\* @require [\s-]*(.*?\.js)/g,
log: true
}))
.pipe(concat('all.js'))
.pipe(uglify())
.pipe(gulp.dest('js/'))
;
});
In order to merge scripts resolved by resolveDependencies
I have to use concat
, but concat
requires a filename and merges not only original file and dependencies resolved for it, but all JavaScript files specified via glob pattern.
So, How do I get individual JavaScript files as the output? Like this:
dist/jquery.js:
src/jquery.js
vendor/jquery.js
dist/application.js:
src/application.js
vendor/angular.js
vendor/ngprogress-lite.js
...
I have this workaround for now:
gulp.task('build:scripts', function(callback) {
var compileScript = function(stream, filename) {
return stream
.pipe(resolveDependencies({
pattern: /\* @require [\s-]*(.*?\.js)/g,
log: true
}))
.pipe(concat(filename))
.pipe(uglify())
.pipe(gulp.dest('dist/'))
;
};
var scripts = getListOfFiles('src/', 'js');
for (key in scripts) {
var filename = scripts[key];
var stream = gulp.src(pathModule.join('src/', filename));
compileScript(stream, filename);
}
callback(null);
});
//===================//
// FUNCTIONS & UTILS //
//===================//
/**
* Returns list of files in the specified directory
* with the specified extension.
*
* @param {string} path
* @param {string} extension
* @returns {string[]}
*/
function getListOfFiles(path, extension) {
var list = [];
var files = fs.readdirSync(path);
var pattern = new RegExp('.' + extension + '$');
for (var key in files) {
var filename = files[key];
if (filename.match(pattern)) {
list.push(filename);
}
}
return list;
}
But it looks hackish and I can't find a good way to make it work with gulp-watch.
Is there a better and simpler way to solve this problem and achieve desired result?