# gulp memo

• gulp ground scheme built upon vinyl and vinyl-fs

• gulp API

# quick ref (the bricks)

• gulp task to define a task
• gulp src to define files reading
• gulp dest to define files writing
• gulp watch to observe files
• nodejs stream the gulp paradigm
• nodejs pipe to chain gulp tasks
• vinyl fs Vinyl adapter for the file system
• vinyl Virtual file format

# gulp node modules

• gulp-protractor

wrapper module for protractor

• gulp-load-plugins

Check your project's package.json and load all gulp plugins. They are now accessible from gulp-load-plugins.

Ex :

var plugins = require('gulp-load-plugins')();

plugins.jshint = require('gulp-jshint');
plugins.concat = require('gulp-concat');

• gulp-autoprefixer

wrapper module for autoprefixer

• gulp-inject

A stylesheet, JavaScript and webcomponent reference injection plugin for gulp. No more manual editing of your index.html!

gulp-inject takes a stream of source files, transforms each file to a string and injects each transformed string into placeholders in the target stream files.

• gulp-csso

Minify CSS with CSSO.

wrapper module for csso

• gulp-angular-templatecache

Concatenates and registers AngularJS templates in the $templateCache.

• gulp-size

Logs out the total size of files in the stream and optionally the individual file-sizes.

• gulp-rev

Static asset revisioning by appending content hash to filenames: unicorn.css → unicorn-d41d8cd98f.css

• gulp-filter

Enables you to work on a subset of the original files by filtering them using glob patterns. When you're done and want all the original files back you just use the restore stream.

• run-sequence

Runs a sequence of gulp tasks in the specified order. This function is designed to solve the situation where you have defined run-order, but choose not to or cannot use dependencies.