Gulp for Joomla! Components release

Gulp release builder for Standard Joomla! Components, Modules, Plugins and Libraries.

Install

To install all the dependencies,

sudo npm install --save-dev gulp

After installing gulp now you need to install joomla-gulp-release

sudo npm install --save-dev joomla-gulp-release

Using Gulp build system

Create gulpfile.js in your component root repository.

You only need to add following line in file and then execute below commands.

var jrelease = require('joomla-gulp-release');

Configuration file gulp-config.json

Copy and change default information given in sample config file.

Following tasks and switches are available:

To Release component and create .zip file

Use this command to release component. Version and other information can be set in gulp-config.json file.

gulp release:component

To Release modules and create .zip file

gulp release:modules

To Release plugins and create .zip file

gulp release:plugins

To Release packages and create .zip file

gulp release:packages

or

gulp release:packages --folder ./individual_package_dir

To release an extension - Alternative of individual 'plugins' and 'modules' commands

gulp release:extensions

This command will read the base directory and create zip files for each of the folder.

=== Switches ===

Pass an argument to choose different folder

--folder {source direcory}  Default: "./plugins"

Pass an argument to change suffix for extension

--suffix {text of suffix}   Default: "plg_"

Example Usage:

gulp release:extensions --folder ./modules --suffix ext_

Help

Gulp Default task is set to show you help.

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