gulp-revise

Opinionated, straight to the point assets revisioning.

• Example
• Documentation
• Change Log

Mostly inspired by gulp-rev.

Example

dist/
    app.js.rev
    app_273c2cin3f.js
    app_273c2cin3f.js.map
    vendors.js.rev
    vendors_d41d8cd98f.js
    vendors_d41d8cd98f.js.map
src/
    app.js
    vendors.js
gulpfile.js

gulpfile.js

var gulp = require('gulp');
var sourcemaps = require('gulp-sourcemaps');
var uglify = require('gulp-uglify');
var revise = require('gulp-revise');
 
gulp.task('default', function () {
  return gulp
    .src('src/*.js')
    .pipe(sourcemaps.init())
    .pipe(uglify())
    .pipe(revise())
    .pipe(sourcemaps.write('.'))
    .pipe(revise.write())
    .pipe(gulp.dest('dist'))
  ;
});

app.js.rev

app_273c2cin3f.js

vendors.js.rev

vendors_d41d8cd98f.js

Documentation

revise()

Adds the _hash suffix to the files in the stream (hash being the md5 of the file's content).

revise.write()

For each files that have been revised, creates a .rev file that contains the file's name. e.g app.js is renamed to app_273c2cin3f.js so the app.js.rev contains app_273c2cin3f.js.

path

The path to look for existing .rev file so it can delete old revisions. Should be the same as the one passed to gulp.dest().

Note: also delete the corresponding .map files.

revise.merge(basePath = process.cwd())

Merge the .rev files in the stream to create a rev-manifest.json file, e.g:

var gulp = require('gulp');
var revise = require('gulp-revise');
 
gulp.task('merge', function () {
  return gulp
    .src('dist/*.rev')
    .pipe(revise.merge())
    .pipe(gulp.dest(''));
});

rev-manifest.json looks like this:

{
  "dist/app.js": "dist/app_273c2cin3f.js",
  "dist/vendors.js": "dist/vendors_d41d8cd98f"
}

By default, basePath is set to process.cwd() which assumes the current working directory to be the root. However, you can pass a custom base path, e.g:

var gulp = require('gulp');
var revise = require('gulp-revise');
 
gulp.task('merge', function () {
  return gulp
    .src('dist/*.rev')
    .pipe(revise.merge('dist'))
    .pipe(gulp.dest(''));
});

Will result in:

{
  "app.js": "app_273c2cin3f.js",
  "vendors.js": "vendors_d41d8cd98f"
}

revise.noop()

noop utility that just adds the required props to the files for .write() to work as usual. That way the .rev files are properly updated with the file's name, no hash added.

Example:

// var revise = require('gulp-revise');
if (isWatching) {
  stream = stream.pipe(revise.noop());
} else {
  stream = stream.pipe(revise());
}

Change Log

v2.0.0 - 2017-02-16

• Add basePath option to .merge()
  • This is a breaking change: the path to the file was not added until now. If you still want to just have the file names, pass the base path as an argument to .merge().

v1.1.1 - 2016-12-03

• fix write() to work with sub directories #3

v1.1.0 - 2016-12-01

• write() no more requires the dest path (also fixes #3)

Sadly, this version actually introduced a regression.

v1.0.0 - 2016-08-19

• Remove restore()
• Add noop() as a replacement for restore()

v0.0.6 - 2016-04-26

• Add restore() to rename files after their .rev

v0.0.5 - 2016-04-16

• Added checks to prevent facing unusual errors.

v0.0.4 - 2016-04-12

• Fixed an issue regarding the generation of source maps.

v0.0.3 - 2016-04-05

• Update documentation.

v0.0.2 - 2016-04-04

• Update documentation and related links.

v0.0.1 - 2016-04-04

First release.