Gulp Vinyl Transform

A virtual file format.

Gulp vinyl transform.

Vinyl transform wraps standard text transform streams so you can write fewer gulp plugins fulfills a similar use case to vinyl map and vinyl source stream. It ll transparently take care of handling both buffered and streaming vinyl instances for you too. Npm outdated package current wanted latest location chai 3 5 0 3 5 0 4 1 2 clfatest. When a file is read by src a vinyl object is generated to represent the file including the path contents and other metadata.

If you want to use gulp plugins vinyl source stream is simple enough to transform the stream. I know it feels consistent using vinyl transform but it s mostly aesthetic preferences at that point. They can change the filename metadata or contents of every file that passes through the stream. For enterprise using plugins.

Having plugins for things that already deal in streams goes against gulp s supposed ideology of when everything deals in streams gulp will no longer need to exist because it feels like you are saying that browserify doesn t deal in streams well enough. Envify and use them in a vinyl pipeline. Vinyl objects can have transformations applied using plugins they may also be persisted to the file system using dest. It ll transparently take care of handling both buffered and streaming vinyl instances for you too.

Specifically it breaks whenever i add any sort of transform to the browserify bundling process. Envify and use them in a vinyl pipeline. Thanks for supporting us. Gulp needs your help.

When creating your own vinyl objects instead of generating with src use the external vinyl module as. This module lets you take your standard text transform streams from npm e g. This module lets you take your standard text transform streams from npm e g. Gulp plugins are node transform streams that encapsulate common behavior to transform files in a pipeline often placed between src and dest using the pipe method.

The gulp recipe for browserify makes use of vinyl transform but i ve found it not to be the best option. We want to continue expanding our team and find even more contributors from every discipline to maintain and improve the project you love. Every contribution helps us maintain and improve gulp. I am developing a browserify transform and have.