[question] vinyl virtual adapter

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[question] vinyl virtual adapter

tmcw opened this issue 9 years ago · 6 comments

Admittedly a question: is there a module that works with vinyl that would allow piping files from a stream of vinyl objects into a virtual filesystem? I'm working on a live reloading server for which it'd be useful to never save the results of a stream to disk, but to keep them in memory so that they can be served over HTTP.

Answer 1 · 2015-10-29T19:05:34.000Z

I think the closest thing to this would be https://www.npmjs.com/package/gulp-cached but it isn't really the same thing. I've often thought about a similar thing to what you are building so that's pretty awesome. I'm wondering if this has any tie-in to gulpjs/gulp#357

Answer 2 · 2015-11-15T14:23:29.000Z

I believe this is what mem-fs does, but I'm not 100%.

Looks like it uses a pretty old version of vinyl though...

Answer 3 · 2015-11-15T20:00:20.000Z

So far I'm working on a very minimal server that keeps an array of files around - I'm not sure if it'll be enough, but it's working so far.

Answer 4 · 2015-11-15T20:18:34.000Z

@tmcw - You might find some useful code in https://github.com/marak/vinyl-http

Answer 5 · 2015-11-16T06:27:14.000Z

Let me know when this is finished! This idea was actually what helped refine the concept of vinyl as a virtual file object

Answer 6 · 2016-03-11T17:14:42.000Z

I eventually wrote a very simple memory-only server that I concat and set files on. It works very well for this usecase.