gulp-gpp

Features

• You can use it as a gulp plugin or with conventional streams.
• Guaranteed error event triggering before data is passed to the next stream in pipeline.
• Error log with file names when used with gulp

Install

Install general purpose preprocessor first.

For Ubuntu and Debian users it looks like this: sudo apt-get install gpp

Install gulp-gpp: npm install gulp-gpp

Usage examples

Using with gulp

var gpp = require('gulp-gpp');

gulp.task('myTask', function(cb){
    
    return gulp
            .src('./lib/*.js')
            .pipe(gpp())
            .on('error', function(err){
                console.log('Preprocessig error');	// Actual error log is in gpp.log file
                cb();
            })
            .pipe(gulp.dest('./dist'));
});

Using with conventional streams

var gpp = require('gulp-gpp')
  ,	fs = require('fs');

    fs
    .createReadStream('lib/myfile.js')
    .pipe(gpp({ gulp: false }))
    .on('error', function(err){
        console.log('Preprocessig error');	// Actual error log is in gpp.log file
    })
    .pipe(createWriteStream('dist/myfile.js'));	

API

gpp([options])

Generate a transform stream.

Options

• gulp Boolean - Use as a gulp plugin. Default is true.
• argv Array - Command line arguments for gpp. Array of strings. For example: [ '-I/usr/local/include' ].

Returns: stream.Transform - Stream wrapper for gpp command line utility.