my folder structure consists of a directory called "production" which houses style.css, the file that I'm writing in... I have another directory called "css" which is the destination for my autoprefixed style.css file. The watch task I have set up works perfectly for the autoprefixer but the minify task does not work through the watch task in overriding the newly created autoprefixed css with a minified version. I'm new to gulp... any help would be greatly appreciated!
Here is what I'm doing:
var gulp = require('gulp');
var autoprefixer = require('gulp-autoprefixer');
var cleanCSS = require('gulp-clean-css');
gulp.task('styles',function() {
gulp.src('production/style.css')
.pipe(autoprefixer())
.pipe(gulp.dest('css'))
});
gulp.task('minify-css',function() {
gulp.src('css/style.css')
.pipe(cleanCSS({compatibility: 'ie8'}))
.pipe(gulp.dest('css'));
});
gulp.task('watch',function() {
gulp.watch('production/style.css', ['styles']);
gulp.watch('css/style.css', ['minify-css']);
});
File Structure:
-web-project
-css
-style.css
gulpfile.js
index.html
-node_modules
package.json
-production
-style.css
You can just concat two tasks together like this:
gulp.task('jade',function() {
gulp.src('./client/templates/*.jade')
.pipe(jade())
.pipe(gulp.dest('./build/templates'))
.pipe(minify())
.pipe(gulp.dest('./build/minified_templates'));
}