vinyl-ftp hide credentials issue - gulp

Question

I decided to use vinyl-ftp for my deployment process in gulp. One thing I would like to do is to have a separate file with my ftp credentials:
host
user
password
and put that file in my .gitignore. And then I want those credentials in that file be read by my connection variable in my gulp file. My deploy code is the following:
gulp.task( 'deploy', function () {
var conn = ftp.create( {
host: 'yourdomain.com',
user: 'ftpusername',
password: 'ftpuserpassword',
parallel: 10,
log: gutil.log
} );
var globs = [
'dist/**'
];
return gulp.src( globs, { base: './dist/', buffer: false } )
.pipe( conn.newer( 'yourdomain.com' ) )
.pipe( conn.dest( 'yourdomain.com' ) );
} );//end deploy
So I want the values of the variables yourdomain.com for the host, ftpusername for user and ftpuserpassword for password be read in from a separate file so my credentials show up when I do git push. How do I accomplish this?
Thanks

Answer 1

You can pass them as run args:
var
gulp = require('gulp'),
args = require('yargs').argv;
const distDir = "./dist";
gulp.task('deploy', function() {
var conn = ftp.create({
host: args.host,
user: args.user,
password: args.password,
parallel: 10,
log: flog // .log
});
var globs = [
distDir + '/**',
distDir + '/.htaccess',
];
return gulp.src(globs, {buffer: false})
.pipe(conn.dest(args.remotedir));
});
Then call it from command line or put the line in a batch file: npm run gulp deploy -- --host=hostname --user=username --password=password --remotedir=/path/to/folder/on/server. Use gulp instead of npm run gulp if gulp is installed global.
This is a good practice to pass credentials trough args at a program start.