Hard drive i/o is slow and writing to your ssd reduces its lifespan. This gulp plugin provides an in-memory destination for development builds without having to make a ramdisk or symlink your build folder into one.
Installation
```bash
npm install -D gulp-mem
yarn add -D gulp-mem
```
Usage
Import the module and set up your instance:
```javascript
// Import the module.
const GulpMem = require('gulp-mem')
// Create your instance.
const gulpMem = new GulpMem()
// Set the base path to match your build destination.
// "/" or "./" corresponds to the mock filesystem root.
// If you build to "%PROJECTPATH%/build" set your base path to "./build".
gulpMem.serveBasePath = './build'
```
Pipe stuff into gulpMem.dest instead of gulp.dest to write it to the in-memory filesystem:
```javascript
// You may want to use separate gulp sequences for dev and production builds,
// but you could also do some other inline check or conditionally patch the method.
gulp.task('build:dev', () => {
return gulp.src('.//')
// ...// Write to memory:.pipe(gulpMem.dest('./build'))// ...// Write to disk:.pipe(gulp.dest('./build'))gulpMem.middleware. Most likely you'll want to use something like BrowserSync:
```javascript
gulp.task('start-dev', () => {
// Start your dev server using the middleware:
browserSync.init({
server: './build',middleware: gulpMem.middleware,http server in your gulp process and proxy to/from it.
You can also use the filesystem api on gulpMem.fs or patch in a different implementation.
Optional Configuration
```javascript
// Specify logging functions.
gulpMem.logFn = console.log
gulpMem.errorFn = console.error
```
