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gulp-connect

Gulp plugin to run a webserver (with live reload)

5.7.0

632

MIT

JavaScript

106.96 kB

22,229,082 2.9

Installations

npm install gulp-connect

Developer Guide

BETA

Typescript

No

Module System

N/A

Min. Node Version

>=0.10.0

Node Version

11.2.0

NPM Version

6.4.1 Score

93.1

Supply Chain

93.1

Quality

74.8

Maintenance

Vulnerability

100

License

Pull Requests

Open

13

Total

102

Closed

20

Merged

69

Issues

Open

24

Total

188

Closed

164

Releases

5.7.0

Updated on Dec 06, 2018

5.6.1

Updated on Aug 28, 2018

5.6.0

Updated on Aug 28, 2018

5.5.0

Updated on Feb 22, 2018

5.4.0

Updated on Feb 16, 2018

5.2.0

Updated on Jan 04, 2018

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Languages

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CoffeeScript

Shell

JavaScript (50.8%)

CoffeeScript (43.81%)

Shell (5.39%)

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Developer

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Download Statistics

Total Downloads

22,229,082

Last Day

9,305

Last Week

56,283

Last Month

199,118

Last Year

2,365,944

GitHub Statistics

MIT License

632 Stars

336 Commits

113 Forks

14 Watchers

15 Branches

54 Contributors

Updated on Jun 10, 2024

Bundle Size

421.00 kB

Minified

106.96 kB

Minified + Gzipped

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Maintainers

Package Meta Information

Latest Version

5.7.0

Package Id

gulp-connect@5.7.0

Size

158.29 kB

NPM Version

6.4.1

Node Version

11.2.0

Published on

Dec 06, 2018

Total Downloads

Cumulative downloads

Total Downloads

22,229,082

Last Day

7.1%

9,305

Compared to previous day

Last Week

32.4%

56,283

Compared to previous week

Last Month

29.9%

199,118

Compared to previous month

Last Year

-13.4%

2,365,944

Compared to previous year

Daily Downloads

Weekly Downloads

Monthly Downloads

Yearly Downloads

Dependencies

ansi-colors connect connect-livereload map-stream fancy-log send serve-index serve-static tiny-lr

Dev Dependencies

coffee-script gulp gulp-stylus mocha supertest

gulp-connect

Gulp plugin to run a webserver (with LiveReload)

Install

npm install --save-dev gulp-connect

Usage

1var gulp = require('gulp'),
2  connect = require('gulp-connect');
3
4gulp.task('connect', function() {
5  connect.server();
6});
7
8gulp.task('default', ['connect']);

LiveReload

1var gulp = require('gulp'),
2  connect = require('gulp-connect');
3
4gulp.task('connect', function() {
5  connect.server({
6    root: 'app',
7    livereload: true
8  });
9});
10
11gulp.task('html', function () {
12  gulp.src('./app/*.html')
13    .pipe(gulp.dest('./app'))
14    .pipe(connect.reload());
15});
16
17gulp.task('watch', function () {
18  gulp.watch(['./app/*.html'], ['html']);
19});
20
21gulp.task('default', ['connect', 'watch']);

Start and stop server

1gulp.task('jenkins-tests', function() {
2  connect.server({
3    port: 8888
4  });
5  // run some headless tests with phantomjs
6  // when process exits:
7  connect.serverClose();
8});

Multiple server

1var gulp = require('gulp'),
2  stylus = require('gulp-stylus'),
3  connect = require('gulp-connect');
4
5gulp.task('connectDev', function () {
6  connect.server({
7    name: 'Dev App',
8    root: ['app', 'tmp'],
9    port: 8000,
10    livereload: true
11  });
12});
13
14gulp.task('connectDist', function () {
15  connect.server({
16    name: 'Dist App',
17    root: 'dist',
18    port: 8001,
19    livereload: true
20  });
21});
22
23gulp.task('html', function () {
24  gulp.src('./app/*.html')
25    .pipe(gulp.dest('./app'))
26    .pipe(connect.reload());
27});
28
29gulp.task('stylus', function () {
30  gulp.src('./app/stylus/*.styl')
31    .pipe(stylus())
32    .pipe(gulp.dest('./app/css'))
33    .pipe(connect.reload());
34});
35
36gulp.task('watch', function () {
37  gulp.watch(['./app/*.html'], ['html']);
38  gulp.watch(['./app/stylus/*.styl'], ['stylus']);
39});
40
41gulp.task('default', ['connectDist', 'connectDev', 'watch']);

http2 support

If the http2 package is installed and you use an https connection to gulp connect then http 2 will be used in preference to http 1.

API

options.root

Type: Array or String Default: Directory with gulpfile

The root path

options.port

Type: Number Default: 8080

The connect webserver port

options.host

Type: String Default: localhost

options.name

Type: String Default: Server

The name that will be output when the server starts/stops.

options.https

Type: Object Default: false

Can be any options documented at https://nodejs.org/api/https.html#https_https_createserver_options_requestlistener

When https is just set to true (boolean), then internally some defaults will be used.

options.livereload

Type: Object or Boolean Default: false

options.livereload.port

Type: Number Default: 35729

Overrides the hostname of the script livereload injects in index.html

options.livereload.hostname

Type: String Default: 'undefined'

options.fallback

Type: String Default: undefined

Fallback file (e.g. index.html)

options.middleware

Type: Function Default: []

options.debug

Type: Boolean Default: false

options.index

Type: Boolean or String of a new index pass or Array of new indexes in preferred order Default: true

1gulp.task('connect', function() {
2  connect.server({
3    root: "app",
4    middleware: function(connect, opt) {
5      return [
6        // ...
7      ]
8    }
9  });
10});

Contributing

To contribute to this project, you must have CoffeeScript installed: npm install -g coffee-script.

Then, to build the index.js file, run coffee -o . -bc src/. Run npm test to run the tests.

Contributors

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10

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10

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3

Pinned-Dependencies

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2

Code-Review

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0

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0

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0

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0

Fuzzing

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0

Branch-Protection

Determines if the default and release branches are protected with GitHub's branch protection settings.

0

SAST

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0

Vulnerabilities

Determines if the project has open, known unfixed vulnerabilities.

Score

2.9

/10

Last Scanned on 2025-02-24

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Installations

Developer Guide

No

N/A

>=0.10.0

11.2.0

6.4.1

Score

Pull Requests

13

102

20

69

Issues

24

188

164

Releases

Contributors

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Languages

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Developer

Download Statistics

GitHub Statistics

Bundle Size

421.00 kB

106.96 kB

Maintainers

Package Meta Information

Total Downloads

22,229,082

Daily Downloads

Weekly Downloads

Monthly Downloads

Yearly Downloads

Dependencies

Dev Dependencies

gulp-connect

Sponsors

Install

Usage

LiveReload

Start and stop server

Multiple server

http2 support

API

options.root

options.port

options.host

options.name

options.https

options.livereload

options.livereload.port

options.livereload.hostname

options.fallback

options.middleware

options.debug

options.index

Contributing

Contributors

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