gulp-data-contents

gulp-data-contents

Gulp plugin that replaces the contents of a file with the contents of another file using the filepath specified on the 'contents' property in front-matter. Customizable, useful for generating scaffolding or defining placeholder files.

Install

Install with npm:

$ npm install --save gulp-data-contents

What does this do?

Given you have a file with the following front-matter:

---
contents: scaffold.txt
---

This plugin will replace the contents of the file with the contents from scaffold.txt.

Usage

var gulp = require('gulp');
var contents = require('gulp-data-contents');

gulp.task('contents', function() {
  return gulp.src('example.txt')
    .pipe(contents())
    .pipe(gulp.dest('dist'));
});

Options

options.prop

Customize the file property to use. By default, file.data.contents is used.

Type:: string

Default:: data.contents

Example

contents({prop: 'data.value'})

Which would be used like this:

---
value: scaffold.txt
---

Note that gray-matter (the front-matter parser used by assemble, metalsmith, the electron website and many others, uses the file.data property for front-matter. Other libraries might use a different property).

options.cwd

Customize current working directory to use for filepath specified in front-matter. If not specified, file.base is used as the cwd.

Type:: string

Default:: undefined

Example

contents({cwd: 'templates'})

options.resolve

Custom function for resolving file.contents from the path defined in front-matter.

Type:: function

Default: Uses fs.readFileSync()

Example

contents({
  resolve: function(file, options, next) {
    var fp = path.join('some/path', file.data.contents);
    file.contents = fs.readFileSync(fp);
    next(null, file);
  }
})

About

Contributing

Pull requests and stars are always welcome. For bugs and feature requests, please create an issue.

Please read the contributing guide for advice on opening issues, pull requests, and coding standards.

Building docs

(This project's readme.md is generated by verb, please don't edit the readme directly. Any changes to the readme must be made in the .verb.md readme template.)

To generate the readme, run the following command:

$ npm install -g verbose/verb#dev verb-generate-readme && verb

Running tests

Running and reviewing unit tests is a great way to get familiarized with a library and its API. You can install dependencies and run tests with the following command:

$ npm install && npm test

Author

Jon Schlinkert

• github/jonschlinkert
• twitter/jonschlinkert

License

Copyright © 2017, Jon Schlinkert. Released under the MIT License.

This file was generated by verb-generate-readme, v0.6.0, on August 07, 2017.