gulp-file-contents-to-keys

gulp-file-contents-to-keys

NPM package pagh

Input some files, outputs a javascript Object with keys as file names and values as their content (escaped string) Very helpful when working with HTML template files and you want to import them all in an easy way.

See my other related packaged:

gulp-file-contents-to-modules

Compiles templates files (lodash/underscore) to ES6 exports, in a single file

gulp-template-compile-es6

Input template files, output a single file with exports as variables (file name) and values as file contents.

Install

$ npm install gulp-file-contents-to-keys

How it works

Given a nested directory of files like so,

my-files
├── a.html
├── a.html
└── some folder-c
    └── c.html

gulp-file-contents-to-keys reads each file, and outputs a single file representing the contents of each file. The output is an Object (keys/values) and can have a configurable varable name.

Output example:

var templates = {
  "a": "<div>file a</div>",
  "b": "<p style=\"color:red\">file b</p>",
  "some folder-c|c": "<ul><li>item 1</li><li>item 2</li><li>item 3</li></ul>"
};

How to Use

var gulp        = require('gulp');
var filesTokeys = require('gulp-file-contents-to-keys');

gulp.task('default', function() {
    gulp.src('./templates/**/*.html')
        .pipe(filesTokeys(
            {
                name            : 'export default templates',
                fileName        : 'output.js',
                minify          : true,
                removeFileTypes : true,
                folderDelimiter : '|',
            }
        ))
        .pipe(gulp.dest('./test/output'))
});

Settings

Name	Type	Default	Info
name	String	var temlpates	the name which points to the created Object. For example: export default templates if you want to import it using ES6 modules
folderDelimiter	String	|	delimiter in Object key, for deep files within folders
fileName	String		example: 'output.js' will output that file to the stream. it is an optional and the output of the plugin can also be used (within the gulp task) with gulp-concat to output to anywhere
minify	Boolean	true	minify the files' content (removes new lines & whitespaces between HTML tags)
removeFileTypes	Boolean	true	don't include in the Objects keys the file types (disregard .html for example)