gulp-crash-sound

Play a WAV or MP3 when gulp crashes.

Errors in gulp tasks tend to crash it. You then spend a few minutes trying to figure out what's gone wrong only to find that gulp crashed and you didn't notice.

Use this plugin to play a sound when gulp crashes so you know you need to fix something.

This plugin can also be used with gulp-plumber.

Installation

$ npm install -g gulp-crash-sound

Examples

The following examples show you 3 ways to use gulp-crash-sound.

1. Just include and use defaults.

var gCrashSound = require('gulp-crash-sound');
 
gulp.task('build', function() {
    gulp.src('/some/path');
});
// if gulp crashes (for any task) a sound will be played

2. Play a sound in your error handler.

var gCrashSound = require('gulp-crash-sound');
 
function yourOnErrorFunction(err) {
    gCrashSound.play();
    // handle error
}
 
// somewhere in gupfile.js
.on('error', yourOnErrorFunction)

3. Wrap gulp-plumber.

var gCrashSound = require('gulp-crash-sound');
 
// somewhere in gupfile.js
.pipe(plumber({
    errorHandler: gCrashSound.plumb(yourOnErrorFunction)
    // if gulp crashes a sound is played before calling your error function
}))

Configuration

The default sound is a 'gulp' but you can use any WAV or MP3 (drm free).

var gCrashSound = require('gulp-crash-sound');
 
gCrashSound.config({
    file: '/path/to/your/wav/or/mp3',
    duration: 3 // 3 seconds. can be null (or not set) to play full length which is the default
});

Requirements

• Linux: aplay
• OSX: afplay

Known Issues

• No Windows support