I'm trying to compile all the .less files to css, and leave .import.less files unprocessed (similar to Meteor less package). My file structure is as follow:
assets/less/normalize.less
assets/less/main.less
assets/less/header.import.less
assets/less/footer.import.less
assets/less/...
My lessCompile task works fine by itself (i.e. run it manually by gulp lessCompile).
gulp.task('lessCompile', function() {
gulp.src(['assets/less/main.less', '!assets/less/*.import.less'])
.pipe(less())
.pipe(autoprefix('last 2 version'))
.pipe(minifyCSS({ advanced: true }))
.pipe(concat('style.min.css'))
.pipe(gulp.dest('public/stylesheets'));
});
Now I add a watch to all the .less files to automate the compilation.
gulp.task('default', ['lessCompile'], function () {
gulp.watch('assets/less/*.less', ['lessCompile']);
});
Problem is after I edited assets/less/footer.import.less , lessCompile task re-ran itself and all the styles in footer.import.less disappeared from the minified style.min.css. The same disappearance goes for editing any other *.import.less such as header.import.less. Also, there are no errors during the re-compile process.
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I am using gulp with gulp-pug so that I can split my template into reusable components. Pug grabs any existing *.pug(jade) files and converts them to generic html files on browser-sync and/or project build (in my case).
gulp.task('views', function buildHTML() {
return gulp.src('src/views/*.pug')
.pipe(changed('src', {
extension: '.html'
}))
.pipe(pug({
pretty: true
}))
.pipe(gulp.dest('src/'))
});
gulp.task('watch', ['browserSync', 'views', 'sass'], function () {
gulp.watch('src/scss/**/*.scss', ['sass']);
gulp.watch('src/views/**/*.pug', ['views']);
// Reloads the browser whenever HTML or JS files change
gulp.watch('src/views/**/*.pug', browserSync.reload);
gulp.watch('src/*.html', browserSync.reload);
gulp.watch('src/js/**/*.js', browserSync.reload);
});
gulp.task('default', function (callback) {
runSequence(['views', 'sass', 'browserSync', 'watch'],
callback
);
});
And this is the basic pug index with included partials
doctype html
html(lang='en')
include partials/head.pug
body
<!-- content -->
include partials/footer.pug
include partials/scripts.pug
Everything is running smoothly except for one thing, my views folder structure is as follows:
views
--- partials
--- *
--- *
--- etc.
--- index
When I make changes in one of my partials (the pug files inside the partials folder) and I save, the live-reload functionality works as expected, but the *.pug files are not being parsed. When I save the index.pug however, files are converted and the page loads the new content.
What am I doing wrong and where?
P.S. Even when editing the index file, I have to manually refresh the page from time to time so it can render the page instead of a blank slate.
A tiny, but big mistake here. I was also live-reloading the pug files, which causes some confusion to the parser.
My watch task looked like this:
gulp.task('watch', ['browserSync', 'views', 'sass'], function () {
gulp.watch('src/scss/**/*.scss', ['sass']);
gulp.watch('src/views/**/*.pug', ['views']);
// Reloads the browser whenever HTML or JS files change
gulp.watch('src/views/**/*.pug', browserSync.reload);
gulp.watch('src/*.html', browserSync.reload);
gulp.watch('src/js/**/*.js', browserSync.reload);
});
Now, I removed this line:
gulp.watch('src/views/**/*.pug', browserSync.reload);
which made no sense, but I found it.
You only need to watch for changes in the html files.
I have a gulpfile in which is a watch task, below
gulp.task('watch', function() {
gulp.watch('template/slick/assets/less/*.less', ['less']); // Watch all the .less files, then run the less task
});
This then invokes a less compile to css of that directory and moves it to a /css/ folder.
I then have 2 other tasks already scripted up to min, concat and move these .css files to a dist folder.
What I need to know is that when my watch invoked less task completes can I notify/run the stylesmin, cssconcats tasks? I do need to add more code to do it. I can't see to find a decent notify/end style way of doing things.
Here's the less task which is invoked by watch
gulp.task('less', function () {
return gulp.src('game/http/template/slick/assets/less/*.less')
.pipe(less())
.pipe(gulp.dest('game/http/template/slick/assets/css/'))
.pipe(notify({message: 'Less compiled'}));
});
You can define your tasks as dependencies of each other with [] syntax like below. (I'm assuming you are using something like connect to start up a server before you start watching the files)
gulp.task('less', function() {
console.log('less');
})
gulp.task('stylesmin', ['less'], function() {
console.log('stylesmin');
})
gulp.task('cssconcats', ['stylesmin'], function() {
console.log('cssconcats');
})
gulp.task('test', ['connect', 'watch']);
Modify your watch to kick off the last task, cssconcats and gulp will run the dependencies first
gulp.task('watch', function() {
gulp.watch('template/slick/assets/less/*.less', ['cssconcats']); // Watch all the .less files, then run the less task
});
Change any .less file and the output shows that the tasks are run correctly in this order;
less, stylesmin, cssconcats
There is the following gulp tasks:
// Processing templates task
gulp.task('templates', function() {
return gulp.src('app/**/*.slim')
.pipe(slim({pretty: true}))
.pipe(minifyHTML())
.pipe(gulp.dest(dist));
});
// Watching files for changes task
gulp.task('watch', function() {
gulp.watch('app/**/*.slim', ['templates']);
});
As you can see templates task finds and transforms all .slim files in .html file. It works good. Also there is watch task which watches changes and executes templates task after it. But I want that after watch task finds some changes in template A gulp will transform only template A, not all templates. I don't understand how I can get changed file and transform it. Please, help me. Thanks in advance.
I think you can try Incremental build.
gulp.task('default', function () {
return gulp.src('app/**/*.slim')
.pipe(watch('app/**/*.slim'))
.pipe(slim({pretty: true}))
.pipe(minifyHTML())
.pipe(gulp.dest(dist));
});
I'm new to using gulp and I think I have it setup correctly, but it does not seem to be doing what it should be doing.
My gulpfile.js has
gulp.task('compass', function() {
return gulp.src('sites/default/themes/lsl_theme/sass/**/*.scss')
.pipe(compass({
config_file: 'sites/default/themes/lsl_theme/config.rb',
css: 'css',
sass: 'scss'
}))
.pipe(gulp.dest('./sites/default/themes/lsl_theme/css'))
.pipe(notify({
message: 'Compass task complete.'
}))
.pipe(livereload());
});
with
gulp.task('scripts', function() {
return gulp.src([
'sites/default/themes/lsl_theme/js/**/*.js'
])
.pipe(plumber())
.pipe(concat('lsl.js'))
.pipe(gulp.dest('sites/default/themes/lsl_theme/js'))
// .pipe(stripDebug())
.pipe(uglify('lsl.js'))
.pipe(rename('lsl.min.js'))
.pipe(gulp.dest('sites/default/themes/lsl_theme/js'))
.pipe(sourcemaps.write())
.pipe(notify({
message: 'Scripts task complete.'
}))
.pipe(filesize())
.pipe(livereload());
});
and the watch function
gulp.task('watch', function() {
livereload.listen();
gulp.watch('./sites/default/themes/lsl_theme/js/**/*.js', ['scripts']);
gulp.watch('./sites/default/themes/lsl_theme/sass/**/*.scss', ['compass']);
});
when I run gulp, the result is
[16:14:36] Starting 'compass'...
[16:14:36] Starting 'scripts'...
[16:14:36] Starting 'watch'...
[16:14:37] Finished 'watch' after 89 ms
and no changes are registered.
for file structure, my gulpfile.js is in the root directory and the sass, css, and js are all in root/sites/default/themes/lsl_theme with the sass folder containing the folder 'components' full of partials.
My assumption is that you are on windows? Correct me if I'm wrong.
There is this problem that gulp-notify tends to break the gulp.watch functions. Try commenting out
// .pipe(notify({
// message: 'Scripts task complete.'
// }))
and see if the problem still exists.
If that does fix the issue, a solution from this thread may be helpful.
You can use the gulp-if
plugin in combination with
the os node module
to determine if you are on Windows, then exclude gulp-notify, like
so:
var _if = require('gulp-if');
//...
// From https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8683895/variable-to-detect-operating-system-in-node-scripts
var isWindows = /^win/.test(require('os').platform());
//...
// use like so:
.pipe(_if(!isWindows, notify('Coffeescript compile successful')))
It turns out that a large part of my issue was just simply being a rookie with Gulp. When I removed 'scripts' from my gulp watch it started working.
I then made the connection that it was watching the same directory that it was placing the new concatenated and minified js files in so it was putting the new file, checking that file, and looping over and over causing memory issues as well as not allowing 'compass' to run.
After creating a 'dest' folder to hold the new js everything started working just peachy.
I have a gulp task which uses gulp-imagemin to compress images. When I add new files to this directory I'd like for this task to compress them as well. I read that gulp.watch doesn't trigger on new files and that I should try gulp-watch so I used it like so;
gulp.task('images', function() {
watch({glob: './source/images/*'}, function (files) {
return files
.pipe(plumber())
.pipe(imagemin({
progressive: true,
interlaced: true
}))
.pipe(gulp.dest('./www'));
});
});
This works the same as gulp.watch on the first run, but when I add a new image to the directory nothing happens. If I overwrite an existing file however, it DOES run the task again, so it does behave differently.
The documentation on gulp-watch called this "Batch Mode" and said I could also run the task on a per-file basis, so I tried this way too;
gulp.task('images', function() {
gulp.src('./source/images/*')
.pipe(watch())
.pipe(plumber())
.pipe(imagemin({
progressive: true,
interlaced: true
}))
.pipe(gulp.dest('./www'));
});
But nothing changed. Why isn't adding files to my image directory triggering the task?
Adding an extra argument {cwd:'./'} in gulp.watch worked for me:
gulp.watch('src/js/**/*.js',{cwd:'./'},['scripts']);
2 things to get this working:
1 Avoid ./ in the file/folder patterns
2 Ensure ./ in the value for cwd
Good Luck.
Ref:- https://stackoverflow.com/a/34346524/4742733
Most likely such kind of questions are redirected to gaze package and its internal processes, that runs complicated watching procedures on your OS. In this case you should pass images/**/* to glob option, so gaze will watch all (including new) files in images directory:
var gulp = require('gulp');
var watch = require('gulp-watch');
var imagemin = require('gulp-imagemin');
gulp.task('default', function() {
watch({glob: 'images/**/*'}, function (files) {
files.pipe(imagemin({
progressive: true,
interlaced: true
}))
.pipe(gulp.dest('./www'));
});
});
But this fill not fix case, when you have empty images directory. If you want to watch them, pass ['images', 'images/**/*'] to glob, and it will watch directory, that initially empty.
P.s. also you dont need gulp-plumber in this case, because watch will rerun function, that uses imagemin every time, even when imagemin pops an error.