Converting Gulp tasks into Npm's script

Question

Converting Gulp tasks into Npm's script

I have been using Gulp for a while and I just discovered a way to run some of the Gulp tasks such as browserify/watchify/less via package.json's scripts. For example:

"scripts": {
    "watch": "npm run watch-js & npm run watch-less & npm run watch-server",
    "watch-js": "watchify app/js/main.js -t -o static/bundle.js -dv",
    "watch-less": "nodemon --watch app/less/*.less --ext less --exec 'npm run build-less'"
}

Since browserify/watchify/less are native npm packages I would like to know how can I reproduce/convert (without writing custom bash/zsh scripts) my other Gulp tasks such as gulp-rev, gulp-s3 to work with npm's scripts?

node.js
npm
gulp

Answer 1

Gulp plugins are just streams that can consume streams that contain globs of files.

gulp-s3 is just a wrapper around knox, you just need to find a different wrapper around knox that exposes a cli interface. Or write your own.

Answer 2

You can already call specific gulpfile tasks from the CLI. Just throw those into your npm scripts.

Tasks can be executed by running gulp <task> <othertask>. Just running gulp will execute the task you registered called default. If there is no default task gulp will error.

https://github.com/gulpjs/gulp/blob/master/docs/CLI.md#tasks