Include version in file's header

[denisz1]

Every js library includes the version in the file's header.

This library does not. And that means I always waste time trying to figure out the version, and make my build scripts work properly.

Please add the version, all it says now is this:

/*!
** Unobtrusive validation support library for jQuery and jQuery Validate
** Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
*/

For example, jquery validation has this:

/*!
 * jQuery Validation Plugin v1.15.1
 *
 * http://jqueryvalidation.org/
 *
 * Copyright (c) 2016 Jörn Zaefferer
 * Released under the MIT license
 */

[Eilon]

@kichalla please do the same for https://github.com/aspnet/jquery-ajax-unobtrusive as well.

BTW I wonder if it's possible to automate it somehow? E.g. have a token such as %VERSION% in the file, and read the version from package.json at build time?

[xt0rted]

I do this with gulp using gulp-header for all of my css & js.

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

var pkg = require('./package.json');

var banner = [
    '/*!',
    ' * <%= pkg.name %> (<%= pkg.homepage %>)',
    ' * Copyright <%= pkg.copyright %> <%= pkg.author %>',
    ' * @version v<%= pkg.version %>',
    ' */',
    ''].join('\n');

gulp.task('less:build', function() {
    return gulp.src('./less/app/app.less')
        .pipe(sourcemaps.init())
        .pipe(header(banner, { pkg: pkg }))
        .pipe(less())
        .pipe(autoprefixer())
        .pipe(gulpif(release, cleanCSS()))
        .pipe(sourcemaps.write('.'))
        .pipe(gulp.dest('./content/css'));
});

[Eilon]

@xt0rted very nice, thanks! That looks like exactly what we need!