gulp-notify-growl

A custom notifier for gulp-notify to send messages to Growl clients using GNTP.

After gulp-notify v1.1.0 Growl is natively supported and this custom notifier is no longer needed.

Installation

$ npm install gulp-notify-growl --save-dev

Usage

In your gulpfile.js:

1var
2  gulp  = require('gulp'),
3  growl = require('gulp-notify-growl')
4;
5
6// Initialize the notifier
7var growlNotifier = growl({
8  hostname : '192.168.0.10' // IP or Hostname to notify, default to localhost
9});
10
11gulp.task('default', function() {
12  gulp.src('./package.json')
13  .pipe(growlNotifier({
14    title: 'Done.',
15    message: 'Done something with the package.json'
16  }));
17});

Options

hostname

Type: String

IP or Hostname to notify, default to localhost.

port

Type: Number

GNTP port, default to 23053.

timeout

Type: Number

Socket inactivity timeout, default to 5000.

Icon

Type: Buffer

Icon to display in the notification, default to the gulp icon.

Example

1var growlNotifier = growl({
2  hostname : '192.168.0.10',
3  icon : fs.readFileSync('doge.png')
4});

additionalHeaders

Type: Object

Additional GNTP headers sent on all requests.

Example

1var growlNotifier = growl({
2  hostname : '192.168.0.10',
3  additionalHeaders: {
4    'X-Foo': 'bar'
5  }
6});

password

Type: String

Password is set in the Growl client settings.

hashAlgorithm

Type: String

Hash algorithm when sending the messages, possible values: MD5, SHA1, SHA256 and SHA512. Default to SHA256.

encryption

Type: String

Encryption used when sending the messages, possible values: AES, DES and 3DES. Default to no encryption.

appName

Type: String

Second argument for custom application name registered in growl. Allows for multiple growlNotifiers with different application names.

Example

1var growlPHPUnitNotifier = growl({
2  hostname : '192.168.0.10',
3  icon : fs.readFileSync('doge.png')
4}, 'Very Unit!');
5
6var growlSassNotifier = growl({
7  hostname : '192.168.0.10',
8  icon : fs.readFileSync('doge.png')
9}, 'Many Sass!');

License

gulp-notify-growl is licensed under the MIT License.