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generate-target

Plugin for automatically creating tasks from declarative target configurations. Works with generate, assemble, verb, or any other base application with plugin support.

Usage

Can be used with any base application, including assemble, generate, and update.

var target = require('generate-target');

Example

var Base = require('base');
var targets = require('base-target');
var app = new Base({isApp: true}); 
app.use(targets());

// create a target
app.target('abc', {
  src: 'templates/*.hbs',
  dest: 'site',
});

// get a target
app.target('abc')
  .generate({cwd: 'fo'}) // build the files in a target
  .on('error', console.error)
  .on('end', function() {
    console.log('done!');
  });

See the expand-target library for additional information and API documentation.

API

.targetSeries

Asynchronously generate files from a declarative target configuration.

Params

target {Object}: Target configuration object.
next {Function}: Optional callback function. If not passed, .targetStream will be called and a stream will be returned.

Example

var Target = require('target');
var target = new Target({
  options: {cwd: 'source'},
  src: ['content/*.md']
});

app.targetSeries(target, function(err) {
  if (err) console.log(err);
});

.targetStream

Generate files from a declarative target configuration.

Params

target {Object}: target configuration object.
returns {Stream}: returns a stream with all processed files.

Example

var Target = require('target');
var target = new Target({
  options: {},
  files: {
    src: ['*'],
    dest: 'foo'
  }
});

app.targetStream(target)
  .on('error', console.error)
  .on('end', function() {
    console.log('done!');
  });

Tasks

If the instance has a task method, a task is automatically created for each target.

Example

app.target('docs', {src: 'src/docs/*.md', dest: 'docs'});
app.target('site', {src: 'src/site/*.hbs', dest: 'site'});

app.build(['docs', 'site'], function(err) {
  if (err) return console.log(err);
  console.log('done!');
});

Disable auto-tasks

Pass options to the plugin to disable this feature.