gulpfile
My global gulp runner, serving all my local web projects.
While I warrant hard drive storage is cheap and plentiful, it also pains me to have gulp installed in multiple locations and house literaly hundreds of readme.md files for all the node dependencies Gulp requires.
Out of pure stubbornness, therefore, I have built this gulp runner to address all my task builder needs from one folder.
setup
bash script
In .bash_profile, add the following function:
export GULPFILE=/path/to/gulp/install
serve(){
gulp ${2} --gulpfile ${GULPFILE:-./gulpfile.js} --cwd ${1:-.}
}This script assumes the bash variable $GULPFILE is set with a valid pointer to the gulpfile in this repo.
I keep the $GULPFILE export in a system-specific exports file, which is why the two are separate.
directory structure
Script assumes this directory structure:
project
|-- .git
|-- src
| |-- scss
| |-- js
| |-- i
| |-- inc
|-- dist
The only important directory is src, as dist will create itself if need be. Version control wherever you want.
running
Assuming you’ve added the bash function and configured gulp, you can now run serve from the project root. Gulp will watch src and compile to dist.