gulp-bower-deps: defines your bower dependencies inside gulp configuration

Yet another bower gulp plugin

This plugin is a tiny wrapper around bower api designed to avoid boilerplate as much as possible:

• no bower.json
• no bowerrc needed
• all bower configuration in one place, preferably not in a json file:
  • which bower package you need
  • where you place it
  • what file you use.

A problem with bower is that it does not defines clearly where files are supposed to be. Developer can specify a main file, but they rarely do, and when they do this is never the version you want to have. Some prefer pre-minified, other prefer not minified, in order to debug.

This plugin allows you to specify in gulp the list of bower package you want to depend on, and which file you want to embed into your asset pipeline.

Usage

{{{ opts = { directory: "libs", deps: { jquery: { version: "^2.0.0", files: "dist/jquery.js" }, angular: { version: "~1.2.0", files: "angular.js" } }, testdeps:{ "angular-mock": { version: "~1.2.0", files: "angular-mock.js" } }, } var bower = require("gulp-bower-deps")(opts);

bower.installtask(gulp);

... gulp.src(bower.deps).pipe(...)

... gulp.src(bower.testdeps).pipe(...) }}} The previous example is arguably much nicer in coffeescript.

• directory: directory, where bower will install the dependencies

• deps: dependencies specification, usually concatenated together for prod

• testdeps: dependencies specification for tests, concatenated in another file for tests

Integration in a larger build system

This package is independent but made for guanlecoja, so you can see how it is used there. https://www.npmjs.org/package/guanlecoja

Credits

Some code based on: https://github.com/zont/gulp-bower

Changelog

0.3.2

• Fix support for strict mode.

0.3.1

• Fix an issue where bowerdeps only works on a second run.

0.3.0

• Generate a bowerdeps.js, which contain the metadata for the dependencies embedded in the deps source files

0.2.0

• Change installation method. We now fake a bower.json, instead of faking a bower install. With this method, bower does all checks correctly, and dont fail to upgrade packages Because this uses undocumented bower API, we fix the bower version in dependancies

0.1.1

• fix bug where dep is not downloaded if files = []

0.1.0

• initial release