gulp plugin to automate build

[nubunto]

I'm thinking something like:

• Code in sibilant (from the server all the way to the client)
• Make gulp compile it to JS
• Use it!

[dead-claudia]

You could probably do that yourself in a day or two. Look at the size of the entirety of the gulp-bower plugin. That's just under 100 lines of JavaScript. Sibilant's compiler API is relatively simple, but I think that, because of the (include) feature, the plugin would have to be the source of the stream, like gulp-bower is.

An idea for the API (in JS, ordered by parent API):

• Notes on Sibilant API:

  • sibilant.file – starting file
  • sibilant.dir – starting current working directory

• sibilant.translateFile

  sibilant('src/foo.sibilant')

  • sibilant.file – src/foo.sibilant
  • sibilant.dir – src

  sibilant({
    file: 'foo.sibilant',
    cwd: process.cwd(),
  })

  • sibilant.file – foo.sibilant
  • sibilant.dir – process.cwd()

• sibilant.translateJson

  sibilant('foo.son')

  • See above.

  sibilant({
    file: 'foo.son',
    cwd: process.cwd(),
  })

  • See above.

• Multiple files, using minimatch/etc. Use respective conversion method for each matched file.

  sibilant('*.sibilant')
  sibilant('*.son')
  sibilant(['**/*.sibilant', '**/*.son', '!*.sibilant'])

Example usage:

// JavaScript
var mergeStream = require('merge-stream');
var sibilant = require('gulp-sibilant');

gulp.task('build', function () {
  return mergeStream(
      sibilant('src/index.sibilant'),
      sibilant('src/cli.sibilant'))
    .pipe(gulp.dest('dist'));
});

Example in Sibilant

(var merge-stream (require 'merge-stream))
(var sibilant (require 'sibilant))

(gulp.task 'build
  (#> (chain (merge-stream
      (sibilant "src/index.sibilant")
      (sibilant "src/cli.sibilant"))
    (pipe (gulp.dest 'dist))))

If Gulp doesn't support it already, make this your gulpfile.js. I have to use the same workaround until they fix Babel support (ES6 transpiler).

require('sibilant');
require('./gulpfile.sibilant');

I don't personally have a vested interest in Sibilant, but it wouldn't be that hard to create such a plugin.