Description

"Automate and enhance your workflow" This is how Gulp presents itself, Gulp is a task runner, combined with an API of file streams.

This runner is based on Gulp 4.

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Features

• Create any gulp task
• Combine tasks in parallel or in series
• Create file watchers that run tasks or anything else on change.

Adding Gulp tasks

module.exports = {
  /**
   * Represents the extension point for Gulp configuration
   * @param {Crafty} crafty - The instance of Crafty.
   * @param {Gulp} gulp - The instance of Gulp.
   * @param {StreamHandler} StreamHandler - A wrapper to create your tasks.
   */
  gulp(crafty, gulp, StreamHandler) {
    // Create tasks
    gulp.task("images_svg", function() {
      const stream = new StreamHandler("images/**/*.svg", "dist/images");

      stream.add(svgmin());

      return stream.generate();
    });

    // Group tasks into other tasks
    gulp.task("images", gulp.parallel("images_svg"));

    // Register this task to run automatically
    crafty.addDefaultTask("images");

    // Create custom watchers
    gulp.watch(["js/*.js"]).on("change", function(path) {
      console.log("Change happened to", path);
    });
  }
};

The full API of Gulp is supported

Slight change in behavior of gulp.watch()

We changed the behavior of gulp.watch() in Crafty compared to how it works in Gulp: Instead of watching directly, the watch will start when running crafty watch.

This creates a clear separation between development and production builds.

StreamHandler

StreamHandler is a utility class to help you create your streams.

It works the same way as gulp.src()...pipe(gulp.dest()) but with some added syntactic sugar:

• Doesn't return a new instance on every pipe thus allowing you to create complex streams without re-assigning the variable every time
• Includes gulp-plumber to catch errors

gulp.task("images_svg", function() {
  const stream = new StreamHandler("images/**/*.svg", "dist/images");

  stream.add(svgmin());

  return stream.generate();
});

new StreamHandler(source, destination[, callback])

• source is a glob or array of globs
• destination is a destination file or directory
• callback(error) is an optional node-style callback that you can set to be called once the stream has finished processing

stream.add(handler)

Same as .pipe(handler)

generate()

Generates the stream and returns it.