Continuous Integration, Delivery, and Deployment

Checking file sizes

As you are deleting and minifying files, you may be interested in seeing exactly how many bytes you are saving. There is a plugin for that, called gulp-size:

npm install gulp-size --save-dev

Usage is simple:

var gulp = require('gulp');var minify = require('gulp-minify');var size = require('gulp-size');gulp.task('minify', ['clean'], function () {   gulp.src('scripts/*.js')      .pipe(size())      .pipe(minify(require('./minify.conf.js')))      .pipe(size())      .pipe(gulp.dest('prod'));});

This outputs the size of all the files before and after minification to the command window. You can also pass in some additional options to size:

.pipe(size({   title: 'Before minification',   showFiles: true,   showTotal: true,   pretty: false}))

The title can be ...