Gulp SQLite3

This is a gulp module that executes sql files against a SQLite database. It's useful for installing a new database or setting up a test database for integration tests.

Installation

Install with NPM.

npm install gulp-sqlite3

Include the module at the top of your gulpfile.js.

gulpSqlite3 = require('gulp-sqlite3');

Usage

The only argument is a string representing the SQLite database file. A ":memory:" is also acceptable and specifies an in-memory database.

DEfine a gulp task that sources some sql or ddl files (with globs) and pipe in the gulp-sqlite3 method with a database string.

// Initialize DB
gulp.task('db', function() {
	return gulp.src('*.sql')
		.pipe(gulpSqlite3('sqlite3.db'));
});

Note that it's often important to control which scripts are executed first. The streaming nature of gulp doesn't immediately lend itself to this. But you can accomplish it by passing a array of glob patterns to gulp.src().

In this example, we want to create our tables before we populate them with data. The table DDLs are executed before the insert SQL scripts.

// Initialize DB
gulp.task('db', function() {
	return gulp.src([
		'sql/*.ddl',
		'sql/*.sql'
		]).pipe(gulpSqlite3('sqlite3.db'));
});

Acknowledgments

This module relies heavily on the node-sqlite module provided by MapBox

License

gulp-sqlite3 is MIT licensed.