gulpw

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gulpw (gulp wrangler)

Deprecated

This project is deprecated until new version is scripted.

Original ReadMe follows:

Allows the management of a website or web application via bundle configuration files from the command line (uses gulp in the background) and makes feature based development easier.

Basic Idea

So the idea is as follows: We have a bundles directory (could be named anything via the gulpw-config.* file). That directory should contain "bundle-configuration" files which are used by "task adapters" to run a task via the command line; E.g., $ gulpw build:global deploy:global deploy:other-bundle. The bundle files will then hold the user's configurations in the *.yaml, *.json, or *.js format.

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Install

  1. Install gulpw globally npm install gulpw -g then
  2. Install gulpw locally npm install gulpw.

Setup

  1. Create your project's bundle configs folder; E.g., './gulpw-bundle-configs' etc.
  2. Create empty gulpw-config.* config file or run gulpw config in your projects root to generate one.
  3. Tell your gulpw-config.* file where your bundle configs folder is (set bundlesPath to your bundles config path inside config file).
  4. Configure your global tasks within your gulpw-config.* file.
  5. (Optional) Execute gulpw deploy-config to configure servers to deploy your work to.
  6. Reap the benefits of using gulpw.

Bundle config

A bundle config:

  • is made of either a *.yaml, *.json, or *.js file with one or more properties listed in it.
  • can have many config sections used by tasks.
  • can be created by calling gulpw bundle-config. Note this task will not overwrite existing bundles but will let you know when they already exists and will prompt you to enter a new name/alias.
Valid Bundle Config file:
# some-other-bundle.yaml
alias: some-other-bundle
Another Valid Bundle Config file:
# some-bunde.yaml
alias: some-bundle
files:
  js:
    - some/file/path.js
    - some/other/file/path.js
  css:
    - some/other/file/path1.css
    - some/other/file/path2.css
requirejs:
    options:
        # requirejs options here ...
        ...

See the listed tasks below for ideas on what other sections you can use in your bundle files. Also when running gulpw config you will be asked about the tasks you want to include which will then be included in your bundle file consequently depending on your answers.

Running tasks

  • gulpw {task-name}:{bundle-name} [flags] to run task for one bundle.
  • gulpw {task-name} [flags] to run tasks for all bundles.

where {task-alias} is the task you want to run ('build', 'minify' etc.) and {bundle-alias} is the bundle you want to run the task for (for './bundle-configs/hello-world.yaml' the bundle alias would be hello-world.

[flags] are any flags you would like to pass in with the task that you're calling; E.g., gulpw deploy:global --file-types js

Also, e.g., gulpw build:global build:some-other-bundle deploy:global deploy:some-other-bundle --dev The above example builds (see build task for more info) some bundles (in development mode (unminified due to --dev flag)) and deploys them to the users selected server (see deploy task section for more info).

Available Tasks

browserify

build

The 'build' task calls every sub task listed in a {bundle-name}.yaml config file except (by default can be altered in local wrangler config file): - clean (we could have this run via a flag in the future but is ignored for now to speed up performance) - deploy - jshint (called by the minify task so is ignored as standalone task) - csslint (called by the minify task so is ignored as a standalone task)

Note: The minify task runs 'jshint' and 'csslint' (along with other tasks) so that is why they are being ignored as standalone tests.

'build' also adds the 'minify' task to it's list of tasks 'to' run for a particular bundle or bundles depending on if an html, css or js section is found with the files section.

Options:
  • ignoredTasks {Array}: List of standalone tasks to ignore when calling build (*note some tasks are included as conglomerate tasks).
Flags:

--skip-linting, --skip-csslint, --skip-jshint, --dev, --skip-testing, --skip-mocha-test, --skip-jasmine-tests

In 'gulpw-config.*':
tasks:
  # Build Task (Looks through {bundle-alias}.yaml file and runs
  # all tasks that are not in the `ignoreTasks`
  build:
    ignoredTasks:
      - clean
      - deploy
      - jshint
      - csslint
In {bundle}.*:

None.

bundle

Creates a bundle config file in the designated 'bundlesPath' property described in your gulpw-config.* file.

In gulpw-config.*:
static-tasks:
  bundle:
    allowedTasks:
      - browserify
      - compass
      - copy
      - csslint
      - deploy
      - jasmine
      - jshint
      - mocha
      - requirejs
      - watch
Options:
  • allowedTasks: List of tasks that the user is allowed to choose from when generating a new bundle config.
In {bundle}.*:

None.

Flags:
  • bundle: Sets the default bundle name to use for the new bundle config file for the current bundle generation session. Default 'bundle'. Optional (will ask the user for the name of the bundle to generate but will have the passed in --bundle value as the default).

clean

The 'clean' task cleans out any artifact files outputted by a bundle; E.g., if a bundle has a files key or requirejs key then the artifacts outputted by these sections are cleaned up (deleted) when clean is called. 'clean' also cleans/deletes any files listed in a clean section; E.g.,

 clean:
   - some/file/path.js
   - some/file/path.css
   - etc.

*The files section can have many different sections that output artifact files for example a js, css, or html section(s). *See the 'minify' section for more info on the possible sections supported by the files section.

Options:
  • allowedFileTypes: {Array}: A list of file types to allow for cleaning.
In 'gulpw-config.*':
tasks:
  clean:
    allowedFileTypes:
      - js
      - css
      - html
In {bundle}.*:
 clean:
   - some/file/path.js
   - some/file/path.css
   - etc.

compass

The 'compass' task calls 'compass compile' at compass project root location (config.rb home).

In gulpw-config.*:
tasks:
  compass:
  	# Compass project root dir
    configrb: null # config.rb home
In {bundle}.*:
  compass:
  	# Compass project root dir
    configrb: null # config.rb home
Options:

None.

Flags:

None.

config

The config task backs up an existing gulpw-config.* (file could be empty) and creates a new gulpw-config file in the chosen format. The task also allows you to choose which sections (with defaults) to include in the file.

Options:

None.

Flags:

None.

In 'gulpw-config.*':

None.

In {bundle}.*:

None.

copy

The 'copy' task copies any files listed in a copy section's files hash within in a {bundle-name}.* config file. E.g.,

copy:
  files:
    ./fe-dev/bower_components/requirejs/require.js: ./public/js/vendors/require.js

'copy' copies the 'key' to the 'value' location for every entry in the files hash.

Options:

None.

In gulpw-config.*:

None.

In {bundle}.*:
copy:
  files:
    ./this/path/gets/copied/to: ./this/path
Flags:

None.

copytoclipboard

Copies files to clipboard.

In gulpw-config.*:
tasks:
  copytoclipboard:
    alternateAlias: clipboard
    constructorLocation: ./src/bundle-tasks-adapters/CopyToClipboardTaskAdapter.js
    priority: -100

In {bundle}.*:
copytoclipboard:
    # The following two attributes are optional but at least one must declared inorder to use this task:
    #file: {String} - Optional.
    #files: {String|Array} - Optional.
Flags:

None.

csslint

The 'csslint' task runs csslint on a bundle or all bundles using the listed '.csslintrc' file or runs with default options if no '.csslintrc' file is listed (default options are listed in gulpw-config.* file and also wrangler.config.yaml also has a default definition set up for it).

In gulpw-config.*:
tasks:
  csslint:
      csslintrc: null
Options:
  • csslintrc: Location of '.csslintrc' file.
In {bundle}.*:

None.

Flags:

None.

deploy

The deploy task deploys files using the deploy section in a user's local 'gulpw-config.*' and also uses a user level deploy configuration generated by the 'deploy-config' task. See notes in config section below.

In gulpw-config.*:
tasks:
 # Deploy Task
  deploy:

    # Use unix style paths for deployment
    deployUsingUnixStylePaths: true

    # Options written by `deploy-config` to `.gulpw/deploy.yaml`
    developingDomain: null
    hostnamePrefix: null
    hostname: null
    port: 22
    username: null
    password: null
    publickeyPassphrase: null
    privatekeyLocation: null

    # File types that are allowed for deployment
    allowedFileTypes: # This will change to `ingoredFileTypes`
      - js
      - css
      - html
      - json
      - yaml
      - jpg
      - png
      - gif
      - md
      - mkd

    # Domains to develop
    domainsToDevelop:

      # Hostname to develop for
      somedomain.com:

        # Servers where user can deploy to `domainToDevelopFor`
        # (in this case `domainToDevelopFor` is `somedomain.com`)
        hostnames: # slots/hosts
          - -devslot1.somedomain.com
          - -devslot2.somedomain.com
          - -devslot3.somedomain.com

        # All website instance prefixes represent the same website just different
        # instances of the website.

        # An array of hostname prefixes (if any)
        hostnamePrefixes:
          - web1
          - web2
          - web3

        # If set a `hostnamePrefixFolder` value becomes available
        # to any templates within this `domainToDevelopConfig[x]` config.
        hostnamePrefixFolders: null
          #web1: website1
          #web2: website2
          #web3: website3

        # Root folder on the server to use for deployments (prefix
        # path for file paths being deployed that don't have
        # `deployRootFoldersByFileType` defined for their typ)))
        # example: /home/some-user/sites/<%= hostnamePrefix %><%= hostname %>
        # (recieves the `deploy` has from this config)
        deployRootFolder: null

        # Deploy roots by file type. If defined, file types that are keys in
        # it's hash will have the deploy root for said key
        # prepend as a deploy root to the file being deployed instead of the
        # `deployRootFolder` root path.
        deployRootFoldersByFileType:
          md: /home/some-user/docroot/md-files.<%= hostnamePrefix %><%= hostname %>/

        # A map used to replace parts or all of paths found that match the pattern on the left with the value on the right
        # Used for complex setups where the paths in your development environment don't have a one-to-one counterpart on the
        # Server;  E.g., One of my setups has ./jsp/some/file.jsp locally but on the server it is ./some-other-folder/some/file.jsp
        # So this isn't something that can be acheived with a root folder prefix because the local path ./jsp/... is in the root development directory
        # and when deploying we deploy ./jsp/... => /{some-deploy-root}/jsp/...
        localPathsToServerPathsRegexMap:
          '^(?:\.\/)?jsp\/': 'some-necessarily-differently-named-dir-on-the-server/'

deploy-config

Launches an interactive questionnaire for generating a local 'deploy.yaml' file with deployment details for current development environment. Note This task must be run before the deploy task in order for it to function. Note File is put in the directory specified by localConfigPath of the 'gulpw-config.*' file or the default is used ('./.gulpw').

In 'gulpw-config.*':

None.

eslint

The eslint task expects gulp-eslint options (link to gulp-eslint: https://github.com/adametry/gulp-eslint) along with a couple of custom optional attributes:

In gulpw-config.*:
tasks:
    eslint:
        options:
            useEslintrc: true // Whether to use .eslintrc file
        failAfterError: false
        failOnError: false
        eslintrc: ./.eslintrc // deprecated.  Use options hash map instead
Options:
  • options: gulp-eslint options (https://github.com/adametry/gulp-eslint)
    • useEslintrc: {Boolean} - Whether to use .eslintrc files found in the directories checked. Default 'true'.
  • failAfterError: {Boolean} - Whether to fail the task after an error or not. Default 'false'.
  • failOnError: {Boolean} - Whether to fail the task on an error or not. Default 'false'.
In {bundle}.*:

None.

Flags:
  • skip-lint{ing}
  • skip-jshint{ing}
  • skip-jslint{int}

findandreplace

Finds and replaces strings in files.

In gulpw-config.*:
tasks:
  findandreplace:
    constructorLocation: ./src/bundle-tasks-adapters/FindAndReplaceAdapter.js
    priority: -98
    # 'gulp-replace' module options
    # @see for available options: https://www.npmjs.com/package/gulp-replace
    #options:

In {bundle}.*:
findandreplace:
    # Files to find and replace on.
    #files: {Array}
    
    # Key value hash of things to search for (regex|string) and values (string) to replace them with.
    # ** Note ** This feature is not supported yet.
    #findandreplace: {Object}

help

Help task usage:
  • gulpw help
  • gulpw help --section {section-name-here}
  • E.g., gulpw help --section build

jasmine

Jasmine tests task runs the jasmine module on your test 'files' array or string using options if any.

Options:

Jasmine options (see jasmine module for available options).

Flags:
  • Skip Testing:
    • --skip-tests, --skip-testing, --skip-jasmine-tests, --skip-jasmine-testing
In 'gulpw-config.*':
tasks:
  jasmine:
    files:
      - some/tests/folder/with/tests/**/*.js
      - some/tests/file.js
    options: null # - {Object} - Jasmine options if any.  Default `null`
In {bundle}.*:
jasmine:
  files:
    - some/tests/folder/with/tests/**/*.js
    - some/tests/file.js

jshint

JsHint task. If jshintrc is specified those options are used instead (maybe we'll merge these options in the future?).

Options:

See jshint module for options.

Flags:

--skip-jshint, skip-jslint, skip-linting

In 'gulpw-config.*':
tasks:
  jshint:
    jshintrc: ./configs/.jshintrc
    ignoreFiles: null
    options:
      predef:
        - $
        - _
        - amplify
        - Backbone
        - browserify
        - define
        - jQuery
        - Modernizr
        - Mustache
        - Marionette
        - require
        - sjl
In {bundle}.*:
jshint:
    jshintrc: ./.jshintrc
    options:
        ... # see jshint module for options

minify

The 'minify' task is a big composite task due to the many subtasks it handles. The minify task launches the following tasks per file in it's sources array (task only launch for corresponding file types):

  • gulp-csslint
  • gulp-minify-css
  • gulp-jshint
  • gulp-uglify
  • gulp-minify-html

The template hash in the options for this task takes care of importing templates using a lodash template into your javascript file (appended to the bottom of the javascript file)(read notes in config description).

Flags:

--skip-linting, --skip-csslint, --skip-jshint, --skip-jslint, --dev

In 'gulpw-config.yaml':
tasks:
  minify:
    # Header for top of file (lodash template)
    header: |
      /*! Company Name http://www.company-website.com <%= bundle.options.alias %>.js <%= bundle.options.version %> */
    cssBuildPath: some/css/build/path
    htmlBuildPath: some/html/build/path
    jsBuildPath: some/js/build/path
    allowedFileTypes: # allowed files types to process for the main tasks (css, js, and html)
      - js
      - css
      - html
    htmlTaskOptions:
      spare: true
      comments: false
    jsTaskOptions: {}
    useMinPreSuffix: false
    useVersionNumInFileName: false
    template:
      templatePartial: null # lodash template
      compressWhitespace: true
      templateTypeKeys: # template keys to look for in `files` hash of a bundle
        - mustache
        - handlebars
        - ejs
In {bundle}.*:
files:
    js: # {Array} of file paths
        ...
    css: # {Array} of file paths
        ...
    html: # {Array} of file paths
        ...
    mustache: # {Array} of file paths
        ...
    handlbars: # {Array} of file paths
        ...
    ejs: # {Array} of file paths
        ...

mocha

Mocha tests task runs the mocha module on your test 'files' array or string using options if any.

Flags
  • Skip Testing:
    • --skip-tests, --skip-testing, --skip-mocha-tests, --skip-mocha-testing
Options:

Mocha options. See Mocha module for options.

In 'gulpw-config.yaml':
tasks:
  mocha:
    # {String|Array} of files.  Default `null`
    files: # or ./some/tests/**/*.js
      - some/tests/folder/with/tests/**/*.js
      - some/tests/file.js
    options: null # - {Object} - Options if any.  Default `null`
In {bundle}.*:
mocha:
  files:
    - some/tests/folder/with/tests/**/*.js
    - some/tests/file.js

requirejs

RequireJs task.

In 'gulpw-config.yaml':
tasks:
  requirejs: null # requirejs options here
    #options:
      ...
In {bundle}.*:
requirejs:
  options:
    ...

vulcan

Vulcan + crisper task

In 'gulpw-config.yaml':
tasks:
  # Runs vulcanize and crisper on a file and alternately the file hash as a prefix or suffix
  # to the file's basename.
  vulcan:
    constructorLocation: ./src/bundle-tasks-adapters/VulcanTaskAdapter
    priority: 92

    # Files to vulcanize
    # files: // Populated from bundle.{json,js,yaml} file

    # Destination directory for resulting files
    # destDir: // Populated from bundle ""

    # Crisper options
    # @see for available options see: https://www.npmjs.com/package/crisper
    #crisperOptions:
      #jsFileName: # populated from bundle.  Optional.  Default `bundle.alias`
      #scriptInHead: false.  Puts script in head with 'defer' attribute.
      #onlySplit: false.  If false, omits script include of outputted javascript file

    # Vulcanize options (options for `gulp-vulcanize`)
    # @see for available options: https://github.com/Polymer/vulcanize#using-vulcanize-programmatically
    vulcanizeOptions:
      inlineScripts: true
      inlineCss: true

    # Remove generated 'html>head+body' elements and just keep the body's contents
    # @see for more options: https://www.npmjs.com/package/gulp-dom
    #noDomWrapper: false # Best used from bundle config level

In {bundle}.*:
  "Same as in 'gulp-config.yaml' file except `constructorLocation` and `priority` options."
Flags:

--show-file-sizes

watch

The 'watch' task watches any files listed in the requirejs, files.*, and watch.otherFiles keys (this will be dynamic in upcoming version so that you can say what keys should be watched by default.

Options:
  • ignoredTasks {Array}: Tasks to ignore by default.
  • tasks {Array}: Tasks to run sequentially when a watched file change is detected.
  • Not implemented yet otherFiles {Array}: Other files to watch globally. Default null.
Flags:
  • Not yet implement --file-type (--ext, -t) - A list of comma separated file types to watch explicitly (ignores all other file types).
In 'gulpw-config.*':
tasks:
  watch:
    ignoredTasks:
      - clean
      - deploy
    tasks:
      - build
      - deploy
    otherFiles: null
In {bundle}.*:
watch:
  # Boolean for also watching files in `deploy.otherFiles` hash
  watchDeployOtherFilesToo: false
  otherFiles:
    - path/to/some/file.js
    - path/to/some/file.file
    - ...

Available Flags:

Note All long forms of these flags use the --{flag-name} format. Short forms use -{flag-one-letter-alias}. All flag default values are null/false.

  • bundle: Reserved but not yet used.
  • file-types: Used to pass a comma separated list of file extensions to the defined tasks.
    • Affected tasks:
      • deploy - Uses --file-types string to only deploy files of the types you passed in via --file-types or one of it's aliases.
    • Aliases:
      • --filetypes
      • --filetype
      • --ext
      • -t
      • -x
  • force: Used to force the task runner to continue despite any errors.
    • Aliases: -f
  • debug: Used for developing gulpw and allows you to keep your more pertinent debug logging declarations.
    • Aliases: None.
  • dev: Used to ignore minification (at this time).
    • Affected tasks:
      • minify Minification is skipped when used with this flag.
  • verbose: Used to print verbose mode logs.
    • Aliases: -v
  • async: Runs all tasks asynchronously. Note This may cause race condition errors between certain tasks; E.g., gulpw build deploy // If you have many bundles deploy may fire before all build sub-tasks are done cause a failure (deploy task will timeout while waiting for files to become available for deploy if they are being used).
    • Aliases: -a
  • out: Used for sending a path to a task to use to output file(s). Used by 'csslint' task to output all reporting (optionally).
    • Alias:
      • -o
  • section: Used by static help task to show help for a given readme.md section.
  • skip-artifacts: Causes artifacts to be skipped on deploy task.
  • skip-css-linting: Causes any css linting/hinting to be skipped from the minify task.
  • skip-jasmine-testing: Causes Jasmine tests to be skipped.
  • skip-js-linting: Causes js linting tasks to be skipped (jshint/eslint).
  • skip-linting: Causes css and js linting/hinting to be skipped via 'minify' task.
    • Aliases: --skip-jshint --skip-jslint --skip-linting
  • skip-mocha-testing: Causes mocha tests to be skipped.
  • skip-tests: Causes mocha and jasmine tests to not run.
    • Aliases:
      • --no-tests
      • --skip-testing
  • skip-related-bundles: Used within build task (skips building of related bundles).
  • show-file-sizes: Shows file sizes for 'vulcan' task.

Caveats:

  • Be able to pass in multiple flags from the command line (some with values some without values). Running multiple tasks and passing in multiple flags and flags with values are allowed (flags and values need to be passed in last for this to work (cli doesn't differentiate between task names and param/flag values)); E.g., gulp task1 --flag1 flag-value --flag2 --flag3 task2 --flag4 will only run task1 and will parse task2 as a value of --flag2 unless you explicitely pass a value to --flag3
  • Build files cannot be shared amongst bundles when wanting to use the 'watch' task cause they cause a cyclic dependency when running global watch tasks; I.e., gulpw watch
  • Inorder to run tests you must have run gulpw deploy-config since the deploy task will expect local deploy options to be setup for the gulpw-sample-app.

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License(s):

  • MIT (http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)
  • GNU v2+ (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html)
  • GNU v3 (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html)

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