I am using gulp to uglify and make ready my javascript files for production. What I have is this code:
var concat = require('gulp-concat');
var del = require('del');
var gulp = require('gulp');
var gzip = require('gulp-gzip');
var less = require('gulp-less');
var minifyCSS = require('gulp-minify-css');
var uglify = require('gulp-uglify');
var js = {
src: [
// more files here
'temp/js/app/appConfig.js',
'temp/js/app/appConstant.js',
// more files here
],
gulp.task('scripts', ['clean-js'], function () {
return gulp.src(js.src).pipe(uglify())
.pipe(concat('js.min.js'))
.pipe(gulp.dest('content/bundles/'))
.pipe(gzip(gzip_options))
.pipe(gulp.dest('content/bundles/'));
});
What I need to do is to replace the string:
dataServer: "http://localhost:3048",
with
dataServer: "http://example.com",
In the file 'temp/js/app/appConstant.js',
I'm looking for some suggestions. For example perhaps I should make a copy of the appConstant.js file, change that (not sure how) and include appConstantEdited.js in the js.src?
But I am not sure with gulp how to make a copy of a file and replace a string inside a file.
Any help you give would be much appreciated.
Gulp streams input, does all transformations, and then streams output. Saving temporary files in between is AFAIK non-idiomatic when using Gulp.
Instead, what you're looking for, is a streaming-way of replacing content. It would be moderately easy to write something yourself, or you could use an existing plugin. For me, gulp-replace
has worked quite well.
If you want to do the replacement in all files it's easy to change your task like this:
var replace = require('gulp-replace');
gulp.task('scripts', ['clean-js'], function () {
return gulp.src(js.src)
.pipe(replace(/http:\/\/localhost:\d+/g, 'http://example.com'))
.pipe(uglify())
.pipe(concat('js.min.js'))
.pipe(gulp.dest('content/bundles/'))
.pipe(gzip(gzip_options))
.pipe(gulp.dest('content/bundles/'));
});
You could also do gulp.src
just on the files you expect the pattern to be in, and stream them seperately through gulp-replace
, merging it with a gulp.src
stream of all the other files afterwards.