I have a gulp task in which I want to take some source files and copy them to build/premium
and build/free
and then remove some extra files from
build/free
.
My attempt at that was doing this:
gulp.task("build", ["clean"], function () {
gulp.src(["src/*", "!src/composer.*", "LICENSE"])
.pipe(gulp.dest("build/premium"))
.pipe(del(["build/free/plugins/*", "!build/free/plugins/index.php"]))
.pipe(gulp.dest("build/free"));
});
Which results in an error:
TypeError: dest.on is not a function
at DestroyableTransform.Stream.pipe (stream.js:45:8)
at Gulp.<anonymous> (/Users/gezim/projects/myproj/gulpfile.js:9:6)
How do I accomplish this the deleting port? Is there a better way altogether to do this?
I would use gulp-filter
to drop only what should not be copied from the 2nd destination.
I interpreted the intent of the task as wanting everything present in src
to be present in build/premium
. However, build/free
should exclude everything which was originally in src/plugins
but should still include src/plugins/index.php
.
Here is a working gulpfile:
var gulp = require("gulp");
var filter = require("gulp-filter");
var del = require("del");
gulp.task("clean", function () {
return del("build");
});
gulp.task("build", ["clean"], function () {
return gulp.src(["src/**", "!src/composer.*", "LICENSE"])
.pipe(gulp.dest("build/premium"))
.pipe(filter(["**", "!plugins/**", "plugins/index.php"]))
.pipe(gulp.dest("build/free"));
});
The patterns passed to filter
are relative paths. Since the gulp.src
pattern has src/**
it means they are relative to src
.
Note also that del
cannot be passed straight to .pipe()
as it returns a promise. It can be returned from a task, like the clean
task does.