Example Laravel-specific Gulpfile from Laracasts.com

gulpfile.js

var gulp = require('gulp');
var gutil = require('gulp-util');
var notify = require('gulp-notify');
var sass = require('gulp-ruby-sass');
var autoprefix = require('gulp-autoprefixer');
var minifyCSS = require('gulp-minify-css')
var coffee = require('gulp-coffee');
var exec = require('child_process').exec;
var sys = require('sys');

// Where do you store your Sass files?
var sassDir = 'app/assets/sass';

// Which directory should Sass compile to?
var targetCSSDir = 'public/css';

// Where do you store your CoffeeScript files?
var coffeeDir = 'app/assets/coffee';

// Which directory should CoffeeScript compile to?
var targetJSDir = 'public/js';


// Compile Sass, autoprefix CSS3,
// and save to target CSS directory
gulp.task('css', function () {
    return gulp.src(sassDir + '/main.sass')
        .pipe(sass({ style: 'compressed' }).on('error', gutil.log))
        .pipe(autoprefix('last 10 version'))
        .pipe(gulp.dest(targetCSSDir))
        .pipe(notify('CSS minified'))
});

// Handle CoffeeScript compilation
gulp.task('js', function () {
    return gulp.src(coffeeDir + '/**/*.coffee')
        .pipe(coffee().on('error', gutil.log))
        .pipe(gulp.dest(targetJSDir))
});

// Run all PHPUnit tests
gulp.task('phpunit', function() {
    exec('phpunit', function(error, stdout) {
        sys.puts(stdout);
    });
});

// Keep an eye on Sass, Coffee, and PHP files for changes...
gulp.task('watch', function () {
    gulp.watch(sassDir + '/**/*.sass', ['css']);
    gulp.watch(coffeeDir + '/**/*.coffee', ['js']);
    gulp.watch('app/**/*.php', ['phpunit']);
});

// What tasks does running gulp trigger?
gulp.task('default', ['css', 'js', 'phpunit', 'watch']);

So, using the PHPUnit test, do you receive an feedback when there are errors. It no longer "kills" the process, but it still emits the same error I have been trying to resolve (this error is only thrown when a test fails, passing tests work fine as they did before)

events.js:72
throw er; // Unhandled 'error' event
^
Error: Command failed:
at ChildProcess.exithandler (child_process.js:637:15)
at ChildProcess.EventEmitter.emit (events.js:98:17)
at maybeClose (child_process.js:735:16)
at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (child_process.js:802:5)
mikee at Traveller in ~/Documents/Projects/smith-guide on master*
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Works perfectly for me. Are you using all the modules listed above?

Are you using the Gulp exec plugin? Above, I'm just doing:

var exec = require('child_process').exec;
var sys = require('sys');

Looking at the coffee module docs I see .pipe(coffee({bare: true}).on('error', gutil.log)). It looks like the on('error') has to be attached to the module function. I am not familiar with gulp or the sass module but would the following work?

gulp.task('css', function () {
    return gulp.src(sassDir + '/main.sass')
        .pipe(sass({ style: 'compressed' }).on('error', gutil.log))
        .pipe(autoprefix('last 10 version'))
        .pipe(gulp.dest(targetCSSDir))
        .pipe(notify('CSS minified'));
});

gulp.task('js', function () {
    return gulp.src(coffeeDir + '/**/*.coffee')
        .pipe(coffee().on('error', gutil.log))
        .pipe(gulp.dest(targetJSDir));
});

That used to work (with Gulp 3.4), but it doesn't seem to anymore. Even with it included, a parse error kills the watcher.

Secondly, on the exec problem. It may be due to not catching the errors. See here: https://github.com/robrich/gulp-exec/blob/master/index.js#L24-L33

Edit: hmm was worth a shot. Sounds like a potential problem upstream. I am hoping to switch to gulp soon but unfortunately stuck with grunt at the moment.

Hmm, I was thinking of trying a watch task that would do a composer dump-autoload if new directories were added.
Has anyone done anything similiar?

zanmoskotevc - You should be able to do that the same way this script is running phpunit. You can use child_process.exec to run composer dump-autoload.

@zanmoskotevc

You can do this as follows using the gulp-exec plugin:

gulp.task('composer-autoload', function() {
var options = {silent: false};
gulp.src('./app/acme/*/.php').pipe(exec('composer dumpautoload',options));
});

gulp.watch('./app/acme/*/.php', function(event){
gulp.run('composer-autoload');
});

Though using gulp.run has been deprecated, as of v3.5.

@mikeerickson that's similiar to what I have, thanks! :)

FYI, I have written a gulp-phpunit plugin and it should be available in nom in the next day or so. This version makes it plain simple to call :-)

param1 = path to php binary
param2 = options (currently only contains debug flag, will be expanded in future) [optional]

gulp.task('phpunit', function() {
var options = {debug: false};
gulp.src('./app/tests/*.php').pipe(unit('./vendor/bin/phpunit',options));
});

@jeffrey My plugin does not use gulp.run so works with all versions of gulp (including current 3.5)

@zanmoskotevc Have a look at the gulp-phpunit plugin which should be active tomorrow.

The gulp-phpunit plugin is now available on nom

https://npmjs.org/package/gulp-phpunit

npm install --save-dev gulp-phpunit

@JeffreyWay Use gulp-plumber to catch those errors.