gulp-cachebust

Generates checksums and renames references to files

Useful for cachebusting

Install

Install with npm

npm install --save-dev gulp-cachebust

Example

var gulp = require('gulp');
var CacheBuster = require('gulp-cachebust');

var cachebust = new CacheBuster();

gulp.task('build-css', function () {
    return gulp.src('styles/*.css')
        // Awesome css stuff
        .pipe(cachebust.resources())
        .pipe(gulp.dest('dist/css'));
});

gulp.task('build-html', ['build-css'], function () {
    return gulp.src('templates/*')
        // Awesome html stuff
        .pipe(cachebust.references())
        .pipe(gulp.dest('dist'));
});

API

new CacheBuster(options)

options.checksumLength

Optional

Type: Number Default: 8

CacheBuster.resources()

Renames and collects resources according to their MD5 checksum.

CacheBuster.references()

Rewrites references to resources which have been renamed according to their MD5 checksum.

License

MIT © Josiah Truasheim