Inject and wrap contents of multiple files into a single file.
Pretend you have three files, a.html, b.html, and index.html. You use a
snazzy javascript library like angular or something, where you want to have
access to html partials / template strings. You want to write your templates
in different files, but for releases, have those templates automatically
wrapped in <script type="text/template">...</script> tags, and merged into
another file (like index.html). In this scenario, lets say merge the contents
of a,b -> index. Here are your source files:
Contents of a.html: <ul><li for-in="..."><a>...</a></li></ul>
Contents of b.html: <div class="whatevs"><img data-src="{{i}}" /></div>
Contents of index.html:
<html>
<head><title>Super</title></head>
<body>
<div><p>stuff here</p></div>
...
<!-- PARTIALS -->
</body>
</html>
Then you run this gulp task. And get one file, index.html, with contents:
<html>
<head><title>Super</title></head>
<body>
<div><p>stuff here</p></div>
...
<script type="text/template" id="/a.html">
<ul><li for-in="..."><a>...</a></li></ul>
</script>
<script type="text/template" id="/b.html">
<div class="whatevs"><img data-src="{{i}}" /></div>
</script>
</body>
</html>
Boom roasted. Note: this example is just the use-case it was written for. If you have other scenarios where you need to pull the contents of multiple files into one, this library should work just fine (but not javascript, just use concat).
Install with NPM and add to your development dependencies:
npm install --save-dev gulp-inception
Minimum required:
var gulp = require('gulp'),
gulpInception = require('gulp-inception');
gulp.task('make-html', function(){
gulp.src('index.html') // file to merge INTO (eg. "target")
.pipe(gulpInception({
files: ['markup/**/*.html'] // files to merge into "target"
}))
.pipe(gulp.dest('...'));
});
-
filesarray | requiredgulp.src()style file matcher: these are the files you want to merge into the source stream.{ files: ['some/path/**/*.html'] } -
wrapTagstring | optional (default:script)The contents of the files will be wrapped in enclosing tags upon injecting to the target, by default using
<script>...</script>. If you wanted to customize the tag name to be<my-component-type>...</my-component-type>, use this.{ wrapTag: 'my-component-type' } -
indicatorstring | optional (default:<!-- PARTIALS -->)Where
gulp-inceptionlooks in your target file to inject All The Things™ into. Put this wherever you want in your target file. If you don't want to use<!-- PARTIALS -->, customize it here.{ indicator: '__INJECT_HERE__' }... then in your target file, just so long as you have the string
__INJECT_HERE__somewhere - there your merged files shall go. -
attributesobject | optional (default: {id, type})The enclosing tag ("wrapTag") is decorated with attributes, by default it will have
id="..."andscript="text/template"attributes. To add more (or override the defaultidandscript) attributes, pass map where key is the attribute type and value is a string. Alternatively, if you need these to be dynamic (say based on the file name or its path), pass afunction. Functions will receive an object; the result of Node'spath.parse(), which includes relevant file details.{ attributes: { class: 'yolo', 'data-abc': '1234', 'data-path': function( fileInfo ){ // dynamic return '/path1/' + fileInfo.base; } } }This would yield results like:
<script class="yolo" data-abc="1234" data-path="/path1/a.html">...</script> <script class="yolo" data-abc="1234" data-path="/path1/b.html">...</script> -
pipeThroughfunction | optional {default: null}Send each source file through a "middleware" type stream processor to transform the contents before merging into the target.
{ pipeThrough: someGulpProcessor() }
gulp-inception will emit Errors under certain conditions (eg. if configs are invalid). In order to gracefully handle errors so this doesn't nuke your .watch()es, consider wiring up your gulp tasks like so:
gulp.task('make-html', function( done ){
gulp.src('index.html') // file to merge INTO (eg. "target")
.pipe(gulpInception({
files: ['markup/**/*.html'] // files to merge into "target"
}))
.on('error', function(e){
// do something with the error, like log with gulp-util
done();
// or if you DO want to stop...
done(e);
})
.pipe(gulp.dest('...'));
});
See CHANGELOG.md
Pull requests welcome. Please file any issues on the issues page.
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