gulp-notify

gulp-notify

notification plugin for gulp

Information

Package	gulp-notify
Description	Send messages to Mac Notification Center or Linux notifications (using notify-send) using the node-notifier module. Can also specify custom notifier (e.g. Growl notification).
Node Version	>= 0.8

Note: Without overriding the notifier, Mac OS X >= 10.8 or as of v0.3.2, Linux with notify-send installed is required for this to run.

Usage

First, install gulp-notify as a development dependency:

npm install --save-dev gulp-notify

Then, add it to your gulpfile.js:

var notify = require("gulp-notify");
gulp.src("./src/test.ext")
  .pipe(notify("Hello Gulp!"));

Or with template

var notify = require("gulp-notify");
gulp.src("./src/test.ext")
  .pipe(notify("Found file: <%= file.relative %>!"));

See examples for more og the API section for various inputs.

Notes/tip

gulp-notify passes on the vinyl files even on error. So if you are using gulp-plumber the run will not break if the notifier returns an error.

If you want to notify on errors gulp-plumber can be used to not break the run and force you to have to restart gulp.

API

notify(String)

A message to notify per data on stream. The string can be a lodash template as it is passed through gulp-util.template.

notify(Function)

Type: function(VinylFile)

The result of the function is used as message. Vinyl File from gulp stream passed in as argument.

The returned string can be a lodash template as it is passed through gulp-util.template.

notify(options)

options.onLast

Type: Boolean
Default: false

If the notification should only happen on the last file of the stream. Per default a notification is triggered on each file.

options.message

Type: String
Default: File path in stream

The message you wish to attach to file. The string can be a lodash template as it is passed through gulp-util.template.

Example: Created <%= file.relative %>.

as function

Type: Function(vinylFile)

See notify(Function).

options.title

Type: String
Default: "Gulp Notification"

The title of the notification. The string can be a lodash template as it is passed through gulp-util.template.

Example: Created <%= file.relative %>.

as function

Type: Function(vinylFile)

See notify(Function).

options.templateOptions

Type: Object
Default: {}

Object passed to the lodash template, for additional properties passed to the template.

Examples:

gulp.src("../test/fixtures/*")
    .pipe(notify({
      message: "Generated file: <%= file.relative %> @ <%= options.date %>",
      templateOptions: {
        date: new Date()
      }
    }))

options.notifier

Type: Function(options, callback)
Default: node-notifier module

Swap out the notifier by passing in an function. The function expects two arguments: options and callback.

The callback must be called when the notification is finished. Options will contain both title and message.

See notify.withReporter for syntactic sugar.

notify.withReporter(Function)

Type: Reporter

Wraps options.notifier to return a new notify-function only using the passed in reporter.

Example:

var custom = notify.withReporter(function (options, callback) {
  console.log("Title:", options.title);
  console.log("Message:", options.message);
  callback();
});

gulp.src("../test/fixtures/1.txt")
    .pipe(custom("This is a message."));

This will be the same as

gulp.src("../test/fixtures/1.txt")
    .pipe(notify({
      message: "This is a message."
      notifier: function (options, callback) {
        console.log("Title:", options.title);
        console.log("Message:", options.message);
        callback();
      }
    }));

But much, much prettier.

notify.onError()

The exact same API as using notify(), but where a vinyl File is passed, the error object is passed instead.

Example:

gulp.src("../test/fixtures/*")
      .pipe(through(function () {
        this.emit("error", new Error("Something happend: Error message!"))
      }))
      .on("error", notify.onError(function (error) {
        return "Message to the notifier: " + error.message;
      }));

Or simply:

gulp.src("../test/fixtures/*")
      .pipe(through(function () {
        this.emit("error", new Error("Something happend: Error message!"))
      }))
      .on("error", notify.onError("Error: <%= error.message %>"));

gulp.src("../test/fixtures/*")
      .pipe(through(function () {
        this.emit("error", new Error("Something happend: Error message!"))
      }))
      .on("error", notify.onError({
        message: "Error: <%= error.message %>",
        title: "Error running something"
      }));

The onError() end point does not support lodash.template.

Examples

To see all examples run from root:

$ gulp --gulpfile examples/gulpfile.js --tasks
[gulp] Using file /Users/example/gulp-notify/examples/gulpfile.js
[gulp] Working directory changed to /Users/example/gulp-notify/examples
[gulp] Tasks for /Users/example/gulp-notify/examples/gulpfile.js
[gulp] ├── multiple
[gulp] ├── one
[gulp] ├── customReporter
[gulp] ├── message
[gulp] ├── function
[gulp] ├── onlast
[gulp] └── error

To run an example:

$ gulp --gulpfile examples/gulpfile.js multiple
[gulp] Using file /Users/example/gulp-notify/examples/gulpfile.js
[gulp] Working directory changed to /Users/example/gulp-notify/examples
[gulp] Running 'multiple'...
[gulp] Finished 'multiple' in 3.75 ms

Changelog

v0.5.0

1. Added API end point notify.withReporter(Reporter) as syntactic suger for custom reporter
2. Updated dependency for node-notfier - now checking if notify-send is installed on the Linux box

License

MIT License

Changelog

v0.5.0

1. Added API end point notify.withReporter(Reporter) as syntactic suger for custom reporter
2. Updated dependency for node-notfier - now checking if notify-send is installed on the Linux box