gulp-tasks-monorepo

Write once, apply to all

Tool for running gulp tasks against multiple packages

Motivation

Basic idea of the package is reusing gulp tasks for multiple projects that have similar build pipelines. Package iterates over a given folder with packages and run gulp tasks against each package. In its turn, each gulp task receives a current package metadata that contains some information about the package which can be extended via package initializers (they are covered below).

Usage

Quick start

Imagine, that we have a following project structure

 
    packages/
        common/
            src/
            package.json
        api/
            src/
            package.json
    gulpfile.js
    package.json
 

Both packages are written in ES6 and needed to be transpiled into ES5. Here is our task in gulp file:

var rimraf = require('rimraf');
var path = require('path');
var gulp = require('gulp');
var babel = require('gulp-babel');
var gutil = require('gulp-util');
var MonorepoTasks = require('gulp-tasks-monorepo');
 
var repo = MonorepoTasks({
    dir: path.join(__dirname, '/packages'),
});
 
repo.task('clean', function clean(pkg, done) {
    gutil.log('Cleaning', pkg.name(), 'package');
 
    rimraf(path.join(pkg.location(), '/dist'), done);
});
 
repo.task('build', ['clean'], function build(pkg) {
    gutil.log('Building', pkg.name(), 'package');
 
    return gulp
        .src(path.join(pkg.location(), '/src/**/*.js'))
        .pipe(babel())
        .pipe(gulp.dest(path.join(pkg.location(), '/dist')));
});

As we can see, pretty much the same as with regular vanilla gulp, but with one exception - every task receives a package metadata with its name and location.

Sequential execution flow

Since the package executes all tasks in parallel, there is a way how to force it to run them sequentially.

var repo = MonorepoTasks({
    dir: path.join(__dirname, '/packages'),
});
 
repo.task('a', function() {});
 
repo.task('b', function() {});
 
repo.task('c', [['a', 'b']], function() {});

It needs to put those tasks that are needed to be executed sequentially in a nested array.

Metadata

Of course, in real world, our build tasks are more complicated and we need to give some more information to these tasks in order to let them know how to handle each package more precisely . In order to do that, we can create package.js in a root directory of each package that should export one single function which accepts a package metadata:

module.exports = function init(pkg) {
    pkg.options('build.scripts.minify', true);
};

The package will load this module and run initializer before running any tasks. After that, any task can get the information:

var gif = require('gulp-if');
var uglify = require('gulp-uglify');
 
repo.task('build', ['clean'], function build(pkg) {
    gutil.log('Building', pkg.name(), 'package');
 
    var minify = pkg.options('build.scripts.minify') || false;
 
    return gulp
        .src(path.join(pkg.location(), '/src/**/*.js'))
        .pipe(babel())
        .pipe(gif(minify, uglify()))
        .pipe(gulp.dest(path.join(pkg.location(), '/dist')));
});

Async metadata initializer

Metadata initializer also can be async:

var fs = require('fs');
var path = require('path');
 
module.exports = function init(pkg, done) {
    fs.readFile(path.join(pkg.location(), 'package.json'), 'utf8', function(
        err,
        content,
    ) {
        if (err) {
            return done(err);
        }
 
        const info = JSON.parse(content);
 
        pkg.options('dependencies.production', info.dependencies);
        pkg.options('dependencies.development', info.devDependencies);
 
        done();
    });
};

Bonus

As a bonus, we can drastically minimize amount of code and organize it better. We can use gulp-tasks-registrator for loading external gulp tasks:

var gulp = require('gulp');
var RegisterTasks = require('gulp-tasks-registrator');
var MonorepoTasks = require('gulp-tasks-monorepo');
var loadPlugins = require('gulp-load-plugins');
 
var $ = loadPlugins({
    replaceString: /^gulp(-|\.)/,
    pattern: ['gulp', 'gulp-*', 'gulp.*', 'rimraf'],
});
 
RegisterTasks({
    gulp: MonorepoTasks({
        dir: path.join(__dirname, 'packages'),
    }),
    dir: path.join(__dirname, 'tasks'),
    args: [$],
    verbose: true,
    panic: true,
    group: true,
});

// tasks/clean.js
 
var path = require('path');
 
module.exports = function factory($) {
    return function task(pkg, done) {
        $.rimraf(path.join(pkg.location(), '/dist'), done);
    };
};

// tasks/build.js
 
var path = require('path');
 
module.exports = function factory($) {
    function task(pkg) {
        return $.gulp
            .src(path.join(pkg.location(), '/src/**/*.js'))
            .pipe($.babel())
            .pipe($.if(minify, uglify()))
            .pipe($.gulp.dest(path.join(pkg.location(), '/dist')));
    }
 
    task.dependencies = ['clean'];
 
    return task;
};

API

Monorepo(options)

options.dir

Type: string.
Full path to a directory that contains packages.

options.file

Type: string.
File name for initialization module.
Optional.
Default package.js.

options.package

Type: string | array<string>.
Array of string or comma-separated string that represent a package(s) to run tasks against.
Optional.

options.gulp

Type: object.
Alternative gulp instance.
Optional.

options.quiet

Type: boolean.
Turns off logging.
Optional.
Default false.