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gulp-index

v0.2.0

Published

Creates an index file based on the files passed from the glob

Readme

gulp-index

Installation

Install package with NPM and add it to your development dependencies:

npm install --save-dev gulp-index

Information

Usage

var index = require('gulp-index');

gulp.task('html:buildIndex', function() {
  return gulp.src('./src/client/**/*.*')
    .pipe(index())
    .pipe(gulp.dest('./dist/client'));
});

This will build a index.html from the files found in ./src/client in the distribution folder ./dist/client.

<head>
</head>
<body>
  <h1 class="index__title">Index page</h1>
  <section class="index__section">
    <h2 class="index__section-heading">src</h2>
    <ul class="index__list">
      <li class="index__item">
        <a class="index__item-link" href="src/client/pages/home.html">src - client/pages/home.html</a>
      </li>
      <li class="index__item">
        <a class="index__item-link" href="src/client/pages/test.html">src - client/pages/test.html</a>
      </li>
      <li class="index__item">
        <a class="index__item-link" href="src/client/pages/about.html">src - client/pages/about.html</a>
      </li>
      <li class="index__item">
        <a class="index__item-link" href="src/client/components/button.html">src - client/components/button.html</a>
      </li>
    </ul>
  </section>
</body>

options

Various options can be specified, the default are:

{
  // written out before index contents
  'prepend-to-output': () => `<head>
</head>
<body>
`,
  // written out after index contents
  'append-to-output': () => `</body>
`,
  // Title for the index page
  'title': 'Index page',
  // Title template function used to construct the title section
  'title-template': (title) =>`<h1 class="index__title">${title}</h1>
`,
  // folders to use as heading, affected by 'relativePath'
  'pathDepth': 1,
  // Section function used to construct each section identified using path depth
  'section-template': (sectionContent) => `<section class="index__section">
${sectionContent}</section>
`,
  // Section heading function used to construct each section heading
  'section-heading-template': (heading) => `<h2 class="index__section-heading">${heading}</h2>
`,
  // List function used to construct a file list
  'list-template': (listContent) => `<ul class="index__list">
${listContent}</ul>
`,
  // Item function used to construct each list item
  'item-template': (filepath, filename) => `<li class="index__item"><a class="index__item-link" href="${filepath}/${filename}">${filepath} - ${filename}</a></li>
`,
  // part of path to discard e.g. './src/client' when creating index
  'relativePath': './src/client',
  // name of output file
  'outputFile': './index.html',
  // initial tab depth
  'tab-depth': 0,
  // tab string, default is two spaces
  'tab-string': '  '
}

E.g.

var index = require('gulp-index');

gulp.task('html:buildIndex', function({relativePath: './src/client'}) {
  return gulp.src('./src/client/**/*.*')
    .pipe(index())
    .pipe(gulp.dest('./dist/client'));
});

Splits pages and components into sections

<head>
</head>
<body>
  <h1 class="index__title">Index page</h1>
  <section class="index__section">
    <h2 class="index__section-heading">pages</h2>
    <ul class="index__list">
      <li class="index__item">
        <a class="index__item-link" href="pages/home.html">pages - home.html</a>
      </li>
      <li class="index__item">
        <a class="index__item-link" href="pages/test.html">pages - test.html</a>
      </li>
      <li class="index__item">
        <a class="index__item-link" href="pages/about.html">pages - about.html</a>
      </li>
    </ul>
  </section>
  <section class="index__section">
    <h2 class="index__section-heading">components</h2>
    <ul class="index__list">
      <li class="index__item">
        <a class="index__item-link" href="components/button.html">components - button.html</a>
      </li>
    </ul>
  </section>
</body>

Wrapping up

Wrapping you're output in something more intersting.

return gulp.src(client.html.indexIn)
  .pipe(index({
    'prepend-to-output': () => fs.readFileSync('./src/index-partials/index-front-matter.html'),
    'append-to-output': () => fs.readFileSync('./src/index-partials/index-end-matter.html'),
    relativePath: './src/client'
  }))
  .pipe(gulp.dest(dist));

LICENSE

The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright (c) 2016 Lee Chase [email protected]

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.