Gulp Vinyl Buffer

An alternative to gulp streamify that you can pipe to instead of being required to wrap your streams.

Gulp vinyl buffer.

Vinyl adapters can expose extra methods that might be specific to their input output medium such as the symlink method vinyl fs provides. The src stream produces vinyl objects and the dest stream consumes vinyl objects. While vinyl source stream does a good job turning the bundle into a stream other plugins prefer to receive text in a buffer we will use vinyl buffer for this. The only time you get the benefits of file contents as a stream is if it is never buffered plugins follow the guidelines.

Convert the stream of vinyl files to use buffers. Npm install save dev vinyl buffer gulp uglify. Vinyl adapters can expose extra methods that might be specific to their input output medium such as the symlink method vinyl fs provides. Stu salsbury plugins can buffer the files themselves or users can insert something like vinyl buffer into the pipeline but buffering the stream makes the performance worse than if you had not done streaming at all.

Vinyl buffer convert streaming vinyl files to use buffers. Npm install save dev gulp uglify vinyl buffer gulp sourcemaps now change your gulpfile to the following. A vinyl adapter simply exposes a src globs and a dest folder method. Vinyl objects can have transformations applied using plugins they may also be persisted to the file system using dest.

Vinyl buffer convert streaming vinylfiles to use buffers. A virtual file format. When creating your own vinyl objects instead of generating with src use the external vinyl module as. An alternative to gulp streamify that you can pipe to instead of being required to wrap your streams.

Since some plugins expect the data to be buffered we need to buffer the data so we can pipe it into gulp plugins on the next step. Once we have files buffered we can now pipe in all of the gulp plugins as usual. Quite simple we pipe into gulp uglify a buffer of pretty code and out comes ugly code who would have guessed. Each return a stream.

Since the point of uglify is to mangle your code we also need to install vinyl buffer and gulp sourcemaps to keep sourcemaps working. The src stream produces vinyl objects and the dest stream consumes vinyl objects. Each return a stream. When a file is read by src a vinyl object is generated to represent the file including the path contents and other metadata.

A vinyl adapter simply exposes a src globs and a dest folder method. An alternative to gulp streamifythat you can pipe to instead of being required to wrap your streams.