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NAME

gulp

gulp CLI docs

Flags

gulp has very few flags to know about. All other flags are for tasks to use if needed.
  • -v or --version will display the global and local gulp versions
  • --require <module path> will require a module before running the gulpfile. This is useful for transpilers but also has other applications. You can use multiple --require flags
  • --gulpfile <gulpfile path> will manually set path of gulpfile. Useful if you have multiple gulpfiles. This will set the CWD to the gulpfile directory as well
  • --cwd <dir path> will manually set the CWD. The search for the gulpfile, as well as the relativity of all requires will be from here
  • -T or --tasks will display the task dependency tree for the loaded gulpfile
  • --tasks-simple will display a plaintext list of tasks for the loaded gulpfile
  • --color will force gulp and gulp plugins to display colors even when no color support is detected
  • --no-color will force gulp and gulp plugins to not display colors even when color support is detected
  • --silent will disable all gulp logging

The CLI adds process.env.INIT_CWD which is the original cwd it was launched from.

Task specific flags

Refer to this StackOverflow http://stackoverflow.com/questions/23023650/is-it-possible-to-pass-a-flag-to-gulp-to-have-it-run-tasks-in-different-ways link for how to add task specific flags

Tasks

Tasks can be executed by running gulp <task> <othertask>. Just running gulp will execute the task you registered called default. If there is no default task gulp will error.

Compilers

You can find a list of supported languages at interpret https://github.com/tkellen/node-interpret#jsvariants. If you would like to add support for a new language send pull request/open issues there.

February 2019