guttle

Multiple gulp builds with ease

What is guttle?

Guttle is a tool for managing gulp builds. Normally you would have your gulpfile.js and everything is fine. But sometimes you want two or maybe three completely different builds. Wouldn't it be great if you could have a gulpfile.js for your app frontend and a different gulpfile.js for your backend/adminpanel? With guttle you can!

Installation

Simply install guttle using npm in your gulp-based project

npm install guttle --save-dev

Usage

So we want to have a build for our app frontend and our app backend/adminpanel. To separate these build processes you would simply do this in your gulpfile.js

Two separate gulpfiles

In your gulpfile.js on project root

// gulpfile.js
var guttle = require('guttle');
 
guttle({
  frontend: 'assets/frontend/gulpfile',
  adminpanel: 'assets/admin/gulpfile'
});

Trigger specific build from CLI

# Trigger default gulp task in 'assets/frontend/gulpfile.js' 
gulp --frontend
 
# Trigger specific gulp task in 'assets/admin/gulpfile.js' 
gulp watch --adminpanel

Splitting tasks into separate files

In your gulpfile.js on project root

// gulpfile.js
var guttle = require('guttle');
 
guttle({
  frontend: [
    'assets/frontend/tasks/default',
    'assets/frontend/tasks/watch',
    'assets/frontend/tasks/sprites',
    'assets/frontend/tasks/image',
    'assets/frontend/tasks/svg',
  ],
  adminpanel: 'assets/admin/allTheTasks.js' /* Adding .js is optional */
});

Trigger from CLI

# Trigger default gulp task in 'assets/frontend/tasks/default' 
gulp --frontend
 
# Trigger sprites task in 'assets/frontend/tasks/default' 
gulp sprites --frontend
 
# Trigger specific gulp task in 'assets/admin/gulpfile.js' 
gulp watch --adminpanel

Contributors

Runar Jørgensen (@ventrec)

License

MIT © Daniel Eckermann