I'm trying to setup a Cordova develop/deployment chain using Gulp. I ended with this gulpfile.js, but I'm not really satisfied since I need to kill "gulp watch" task in order to run "gulp deploy" task.
var gulp = require('gulp'),
gutil = require('gulp-util'),
exec = require('gulp-exec');
var spawn = require('child_process').spawn;
var stripDebug = require('gulp-strip-debug');
var uglify = require('gulp-uglify');
/**
* Config ogj
*/
var config = {
jsDir: 'www/assets/js',
jsDirBrowser: 'platforms/browser/www/assets/js',
production: !!gutil.env.production
};
/**
* Automatically run 'cordova prepare browser' after any modification
* into the www directory - really useful for development/deplyment purpose
*
* @see watch task
*/
gulp.task('prepare', function () {
gutil.log('Prepare browser');
var options = {
continueOnError: false, // default = false, true means don't emit error event
pipeStdout: false, // default = false, true means stdout is written to file.contents
customTemplatingThing: "test" // content passed to gutil.template()
};
var reportOptions = {
err: true, // default = true, false means don't write err
stderr: true, // default = true, false means don't write stderr
stdout: true // default = true, false means don't write stdout
}
return gulp.src('./**/**')
.pipe(exec('cordova prepare browser', options))
.pipe(exec.reporter(reportOptions));
});
/**
* Watch for changes in www
*/
gulp.task('watch', function () {
gulp.watch('www/**/*', ['prepare']);
});
/**
* Default task
*/
gulp.task('default', ['prepare']);
/**
* Javascript production depolyment.
*/
gulp.task('deploy-js', function () {
gutil.log('Deploy');
return gulp.src(config.jsDir + '/*.js')
.pipe(stripDebug())
.pipe(uglify())
.pipe(gulp.dest(config.jsDirBrowser));
});
/**
* Production deployment
* To be run before uploading files to the server with no gulp instaces running
*/
gulp.task('deploy', ['deploy-js']);
Which could be a best practice for develop and deply a Cordova project using Gulp?
[EDIT] I think the problem is in the "prepare" task: it never returns, probably due a gulp-exec issue, but I really don't know how to debug it.
