Deployable Assets

Web Asset Builder.

Built on gulp. Supports babel, webpack, sass and shell commands out of the box.

Organises your gulp tasks into groups of tasks, groupname:taskname

Group destination can filter down to tasks if you don't override it.

Group sources filter up so you can access all group sources programatically.

A :watch task can be added to groups, or tasks. This will monitor the src files and build as needed.

Async sequences can be applied to a group to run sub tasks in order.

Install

npm install @deployable/assets --save-dev
npm install @deployable/asset --save

yarn add @deployable/assets --dev
yarn add @deployable/asset

Usage

Creating a gulp definition

gulpfile.js

Note: Adding the type of gulp task must always be the last step of a task chain. This step builds a gulp task from the previously set varaibles.

const { Gulp } = require('@deployable/assets')
const { gulp } = Gulp

let gulp_def = new Gulp()

let group = gulp_def.addGroup('sitecss')

// Run a command
group.task('runit')
  .createShellTask(['bower install'])

// Copy files
group.task('copyit')
  .addSrc('bower_components/somecss/dist/*.css')
  .setDest('public/css')
  .createCopyTask()

// Sass
group.task('buildit')
  .addSrc('src/sass/*.scss')
  .setDest('public/css')
  .createSassTask()

// Custom task, still in a group
let task = group.task('custom')
task
  .addSrc('src/sass/*.scss')
  .setDest('public/css')
  .createCustom(()=>{
    gulp.src(task.src)
      .pipe(whatever())
      .pipe(dest(task.dest))
  })

// Add a group task so `gulp sitecss` works
group.sequence('sitecss:runit', ['sitecss:copyit', 'sitecss:buildit'], 'sitecss:custom')

Running gulp tasks

This builds the tasks group sitecss. Tasks copyit and buildit will be attached to a group. The tasks are available to run as sitecss:copyit and sitecss:buildit in gulp.

gulp sitecss:copyit

The parent sitecss task will automatically run all tasks in the group asynchronously.

gulp sitecss

Asynchronouse Sequence control

You can control the sequence of events with .sequence()

group.sequence( 'copyit', 'buildit', 'otherthing' )

group.sequence( 'copyit', [ 'buildit', 'otherthing' ] )

Deployable Gulp

The package provides the Deployable Assets gulp setup as a class which includes jquery, bootstrap, bootstrap-sass, babel and the pre defined tasks to build sources into assets.

const { DeployableGulp } = require('deployable-assets')
let gulp_def = new DeployableGulp()

The following tasks are provided

gulp bower        # bower + copy

gulp js           # babel
gulp js:babel

gulp css          # sass
gulp css:sass     # sass

gulp assets       # bower + js + css
gulp assets:watch # long running wathcing build

Asset Helpers

The @deployable/asset package provides helper functionsto use in your application to refernce assets. All references to your asset paths should be replaced by the helper so assets can be served from any location, including the possibiilty of moving them to a CDN.

const assetHelpers  = require('@deployable/asset')({ prefix: 'https://cdn.com/3e4a6' })

assetHelpers.js('js/test.js') // => https://cdn.com/3e4a6/js/test.js
assetHelpers.css('css/test.css') // => https://cdn.com/3e4a6/css/test.css
assetHelpers.path('fonts/arial.webf') // => https://cdn.com/3e4a6/fonts/arial.webf

API

let glp = new Gulp()

let group = glp.addGroup('sitecss')

group.task('testTask')
  .addSrc('bower_components/jquery/dist/*.js')
  .setDest('public/js')
  .addCopyTask()

About

deployable-assets is released under the MIT license.

Copyright 2016 Matt Hoyle - code aatt deployable.co

https://github.com/deployable/node-deployable-assets https://deployable.co/code/node-deployable-assets