gulp-spritesmash

Versions your static assests based on their content and updates all references to them in other passed files.

sprite.png → sprite-e59ace00a5.png

sprite.css

  .icon-sprite1 {
    background-image: url(sprite-e59ace00a5.png);
    background-position: 0px 0px;
    width: 32px;
    height: 32px;
  }

This was written because spritesmith generates a new image and new css from the input images. Spritesmash will take each image hash the contents and update the name and replace all usages in the given file types allowing the sprite image to be busted if it has changed.

Install

$ npm install --save-dev gulp-spritesmash

Usage

var gulp = require('gulp');
var spritesmith = require('gulp.spritesmith');
var buffer = require('gulp-buffer');
var spritesmash = require('gulp-spritesmash');

gulp.task('default', function () {
	return gulp.src('src/images/*.{png}')
    .pipe(spritesmith({
      imgName: 'sprite.png',
      cssName: 'sprite.css',
    }))
    .pipe(spritesmash())
    .pipe(gulp.dest('dist'));
});

API

spritesmash([options])

options

updateFormats

Type: array

Default: []

Array of extra file types to update filenames with content hash. These should be provided without .

revisionFormats

Type: array

Default: []

Array of extra file types to update content with renamed files. These should be provided without .

hashFunction

Type: string|function(filePath, content)

Default: MD5

Function type (MD5, SHA1, Timestamp) or a function which returns new file name for given content and file path.

Original path

Original file paths are stored at file.originalName. This could come in handy for things like rewriting references to the assets.