#gulp-include

Makes inclusion of files a breeze.
Enables functionality similar to that of snockets / sprockets or other file insertion compilation tools.

Made for gulp 3

Usage

First, install gulp-include as a dev dependency: npm install --save-dev gulp-include

Then, add your include-comments to your file.
People who have experience with sprockets or snockets will feel at home.

An include-comment looks like this:

//= include relative/path/to/file.js

or if you want to get crazy, a glob pattern like so:

//= include relative/path/to/directory/*.js

or to get even crazier, an array glob similar to commonly used in GruntJS:

//= include ['app/someFramework.js', 'app/**/*.js', '!app/vendor/**/*', 'app/someLibrary.js']

(Note: for those of you unfamiliar with the above syntax, check out https://github.com/isaacs/node-glob or http://gruntjs.com/configuring-tasks#globbing-patterns)

You can do all of this in any language, the only requirement is that the first character on the line after any #, /, or white space characters be an equal sign. All the following would be valid.

#= require_tree relative/path/to/folder

or even

/*
= include relative/path/to/file.js
= require relative/path/to/file2.js
= include_tree relative/path/to/folder
*/

gulp-include does not care about whitespace, as long as the comment-line starts with a newline followed = and contains include, require or include_tree, require_tree.

This plugin recursively expand files it includes, so you can nest includes inside of files that were themselves included. IE:

main.js:

//= include included_file.js 

included_file.js:

//= include recursive_include.js

And so on recursively to an arbitrary depth.

The example below compiles a several coffee-files and js-files into a single js-file:

app.coffee:

`
//= require vendor/jquery.js
//= require vendor/modernizr.js
`

#= require controllers/AppController.coffee
#= require_tree views

class Main extends AppController
	constructor: ->
		console.log "This is main!"

window.main = new Main()

Note: The example above uses backsticks (`) to allow gulp-coffee to compile inline javascript

gulpfile.js:

var gulp		= require('gulp'),
	include		= require('gulp-include'),
	coffee		= require('gulp-coffee');

gulp.task("scripts", function() {
	gulp.src('src/js/app.coffee')
		.pipe( include() )
		.pipe( coffee() )
		.pipe( gulp.dest("dist/js") )
});

gulp.task("default", "scripts");

Options

• extensions (optional)
  • Takes a String or an Array of extensions, eg: "js" or ["js", "coffee"]
  • If set, all inclusions that does not match the extension(s) will be ignored

Release log

0.2.3

• Merged community fixes by platdesign and cujojp

0.2.2

• Updated regex directive to not collide with other requireing plugins, like browserify (cwacek)

0.2.1

• Changed replace-method to fix issue when requiring a file that contained special characters (juanghurtado)

0.2.0

• Added require_tree/include_tree (Thanks to juanghurtado!)
• Method now takes an extensions param for controlling what types of files to include

0.1.0

• Basic include

Licence

(MIT License)

Copyright (c) 2014 Hugo Wiledal

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

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