gulp-expose

Expose module.exports to a global object, like window in the browser envrionment.

install

npm install --save-dev gulp-expose

usage

number.js:

module.exports = 1;

var expose = require('gulp-expose');
gulp.src('number.js')
    .pipe(expose('window', 'One'))
    .pipe(gulp.dest('dist'));
// window.MyFavNumber.One == 1

OR

var expose = require('gulp-expose');
gulp.src('number.js')
    .pipe(expose('window.MyFavNumber', 'One'))
    .pipe(gulp.dest('dist'));

// window.MyFavNumber.One == 1
// as long as the namespace `window.MyFavNumber` is available.

And json can be exposed, too:

config.json:

{
    "name": "gulp-expose"
}

var expose = require('gulp-expose');
var gulp = require('gulp-rename');

gulp.src('test/src/config.json')
    .pipe(expose('window', 'PKG'))
    .pipe(rename('config.js'))
    .pipe(gulp.dest('test/dist'))

// window.PKG = { name: 'gulp-expose' }

expose(host, expose)

• host. String. The object that will have the exposed api. It can be any valid expression that can be evaluated as an object.
• expose. String. The property name that will be added to host, with the exposed api.

If host is a function, it receives a vinyl file object, and should return the expose info object { host: host, expose: expose }.

example

build

var gulp = require('gulp');
var expose = require('gulp-expose');
gulp.src('number.js')
    .pipe(expose('window', 'One'))
    .pipe(gulp.dest('dist'));

dist/number.js

(function (host, expose) {
   var module = { exports: {} };
   var exports = module.exports;
   /****** code begin *********/
module.exports = 1;

   /****** code end *********/
   ;(
function copy(src, target, obj) {
    obj[target] = obj[target] || {};
    if (src && typeof src === 'object') {
        for (var k in src) {
            if (src.hasOwnProperty(k)) {
                obj[target][k] = src[k];
            }
        }
    } else {
        obj[target] = src;
    }
}
   ).call(null, module.exports, expose, host);
}).call(window, window, "One");

Now in browser:

window.One === 1; // true