gulp-cordova

This aims to provide a very basic interface to be used in a gulp build system, bare in mind this doesn't provide much really, it's just to abstract the spawn process and the such.

I have no idea how to test this so that's why it has no tests, I would love it if anyone out there would help me out figuring out how to test this. I've written a couple of tests but I am pretty sure they are not enough, and they might not even be good. Help is still welcome!

As with many node projects, send a PR if it is accepted you're added to the repo with full-access rights. If there are any bugs open an issue and we can figure out a solution! Same thing for feature requests or any other kind of problems you might have.

Why this exists: I'm building a project with cordova and I find it cumbersome to have to go to the CLI every time and run emulate or build or whatever, so I figured I'd write a short plugin. It's useful to me, I hope you find it useful as well :) If you want to write a plugin that you think deserves this name let me know and I might free it if I agree!

Why this might be useful to you: Initialise a project without a script, instead use what you already use for the rest of your javascript projects. You could also use it in watch tasks where you want to re-run the emulate command when something specifically is updated.

API

There's two ways to use this plugin, via a JSON configuration file or just passing parameters to the cordova function. Note: If you pass commands as a param the file contents will be ignored.

cordova()

Usage example:

gulp.task('cordova:init', function() {
  gulp.src('./package.json')
    .pipe(cordova())
})

Notice I'm using package.json for demonstration purposes, but you may use any JSON file. Just make sure the file has a key cordova and that key contains an array with the command or an array of arrays for multiple commands.

file: config.json/package.json/xxx.json
{
  "cordova": [
    [
      "platform",
      "add",
      "ios",
      "android",
      "browser"
    ],
    [
      "plugin",
      "add",
      "org.apache.cordova.device",
      "org.apache.cordova.geolocation",
      "org.apache.cordova.console"
    ]
  ]
}

cordova(command, options)

command (optional)

Type: array

Values: In theory, any cordova cli command. I haven't tested all of them.

Eg:

// ...
.pipe(cordova(['plugins', 'add', 'org.apache.cordova.battery-status', 'org.apache.cordova.device-motion']))
// ...

options (optional)

verbose

Type: boolean

Default: false

cwd EXPERIMENTAL

Type: string

Default: undefined

You can use this to run the specified cordova command in a specific directory.

Run command is not supported for the time being