The only time you get the benefits of file contents as a stream is if it is never buffered plugins follow the guidelines.
Gulp vinyl buffer.
Since some plugins expect the data to be buffered we need to buffer the data so we can pipe it into gulp plugins on the next step.
Vinyl buffer convert streaming vinyl files to use buffers.
A vinyl adapter simply exposes a src globs and a dest folder method.
Each return a stream.
An alternative to gulp streamifythat you can pipe to instead of being required to wrap your streams.
Once we have files buffered we can now pipe in all of the gulp plugins as usual.
Npm install save dev vinyl buffer gulp uglify.
Since the point of uglify is to mangle your code we also need to install vinyl buffer and gulp sourcemaps to keep sourcemaps working.
When creating your own vinyl objects instead of generating with src use the external vinyl module as.
Convert the stream of vinyl files to use buffers.
Vinyl objects can have transformations applied using plugins they may also be persisted to the file system using dest.
While vinyl source stream does a good job turning the bundle into a stream other plugins prefer to receive text in a buffer we will use vinyl buffer for this.
Finally we output the processed file.
Quite simple we pipe into gulp uglify a buffer of pretty code and out comes ugly code who would have guessed.
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When a file is read by src a vinyl object is generated to represent the file including the path contents and other metadata.
Npm install save dev gulp uglify vinyl buffer gulp sourcemaps now change your gulpfile to the following.
Each return a stream.
The src stream produces vinyl objects and the dest stream consumes vinyl objects.
A vinyl adapter simply exposes a src globs and a dest folder method.
An alternative to gulp streamify that you can pipe to instead of being required to wrap your streams.
An alternative to gulp streamify that you can pipe to instead of being required to wrap your streams.
Stu salsbury plugins can buffer the files themselves or users can insert something like vinyl buffer into the pipeline but buffering the stream makes the performance worse than if you had not done streaming at all.
A virtual file format.
The src stream produces vinyl objects and the dest stream consumes vinyl objects.
Vinyl buffer convert streaming vinyl files to use buffers.