gulp-url-builder

A simple gulp-rename wrapper to generate static urls from a flat file structure. Built for use with gulp-pug, allows a flat set of files to be easily expanded into directories based on a simple naming convention. Can be used with any type of file, and does not affect the file extension.

Installation

npm install gulp-url-builder --save-dev

Naming

The package automatically outputs every file as an index.* file inside a directory with the original file's name. Parent directories can be created by prepending parent directory names delimited by underscores. Files already named index.* are output as-is.

Input	Output
index.foo	index.foo
about.foo	about/index.foo
portfolio_project-a.foo	portfolio/project-a/index.foo

Example

const gulp = require('gulp')
const pug = require('gulp-pug')
const urlBuilder = require('gulp-url-builder')

gulp.task('pug', () => {
  return gulp.src([
    'src/pug/views/**/*.pug'
  ]).pipe( pug() )
    .pipe( urlBuilder() )
    .pipe( gulp.dest('dest') )
})

Given the following files in src/pug/views—

  .
  ├── index.pug
  ├── about.pug
  ├── about_our-team.pug
  ├── about_our-mission.pug
  ├── about_our-values.pug
  └── contact.pug

—the output in dest would be:

  .
  ├── index.html
  ├── about
  │   ├── index.html
  │   ├── our-team
  │   │   └── index.html
  │   ├── our-mission
  │   │   └── index.html
  │   └── our-values
  │       └── index.html
  └── contact
      └── index.html