Automatic run gulp tasks via npm

Question

I usually run gulp via npm, e.g. in my package.json

"scripts": {     "test": "gulp test",     "minify": "gulp minify" } 

Then I can run command such as

npm run minify 

Which is okay, but every time I've new tasks in my gulpfile, I need to add them to the package.json under the scripts section, is there any better way to do so?

Reason: I only install npm globally to my path so all other modules will not pollute my path, so I need to run them via npm scripts

Answer 1

Have I got a treat for you: I went ahead and made you a simple npm module to handle this.

gulp-npm-script-sync

Here is the gist of it:

  var file = fs.readFileSync(config.path || 'package.json', 'utf-8');   var pkg = JSON.parse(file);   var tasks = gulp.tasks;    pkg.scripts = pkg.scripts || {};    Object.keys(tasks).forEach(function (t) {     pkg.scripts[t] = 'gulp '+tasks[t].name;   }); 

The full source does stuff like write the package.json back with the same indention and stuff.

So yeah go ahead: npm install --save-dev gulp-npm-script-sync

Stick this in your gulpfile:

var gulp = require('gulp'); var sync = require('gulp-npm-script-sync');  // your gulpfile contents  sync(gulp); 

Every time you update your gulpfile with a new task it will update your package.json.

You can even throw it inside a gulp task:

gulp.task('sync', function () {   sync(gulp); }