gulp Comprehensive Guide to a Front-end Workflow Automation with Gulpjs -1 of 2 Anatomy of a gulp function
Example
[Function <name>] (glob) {
$.src(glob)
.pipe([plugin 1])
.pipe([plugin 2])
.
.
.
.pipe([plugin n])
.pipe( $.dest(<destination-name>)
}
Note
pipe is a method that streams all the files matching the glob input , to our plugins( minifyhtml in this case) .
It is simple to picture it like so:
$.src is what builds the stream and pipe pipes out each individual file matching the glob downwards to each plugin in the pipeline.Each plugin the file is passed to , modifies its contents in memory only until $.dest is reached , which then updates/creates files streamed by $.src
Where ,
