gulp-plugin-extras

gulp-plugin-extras

Useful utilities for creating Gulp plugins

Install

npm install gulp-plugin-extras

Usage

import {gulpPlugin} from 'gulp-plugin-extras';

export default function gulpFoo() {
	return gulpPlugin('gulp-foo', async file => {
		file.contents = await someKindOfTransformation(file.contents);
		return file;
	});
}

API

gulpPlugin(name, onFile, onFinish?)

Create a Gulp plugin.

This does not support streaming.

name

Type: string

The plugin name.

onFile

Type: async (file) => file

The async function called for each Vinyl file in the stream. Must return a modified or new Vinyl file.

onFinish

Type: async function * (): void

An async generator function executed for finalization after all files have been processed.

You can yield more files from it if needed.

import {gulpPlugin} from 'gulp-plugin-extras';

export default function gulpFoo() {
	return gulpPlugin(
		'gulp-foo',
		async file => { … },
		async function * () {
			yield someVinylFile;
			yield someVinylFile2;
		}
	);
}