Add an option to create symlink for all non-JavaScript files

The original issue: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/32634521/is-there-a-variable-that-refers-to-the-package-base-directory?noredirect=1#comment53117653_32634521

Using gulp-babel to transpile code directories leaves out dependencies that are not JavaScript (e.g. JSON). All relative references to these dependencies will fail. Two possible solutions:

• Create a symlink
• Append a string to every require that resolves path to ./src/

[gajus]

You do not need gulp-babel or gulp-copy for copying files. Just copy all the files from ./src to ./dist using gulp itself. Then overwrite the build files using gulp-babel.

gulp.task('copy', () => {
    return gulp
        .src('./src/**/*')
        .pipe(gulp.dest('./dist'));
});

gulp.task('build-es5', ['copy'], () => {
    return gulp
        .src('./src/**/*.js')
        .pipe(sourcemaps.init())
        .pipe(babel())
        .pipe(sourcemaps.write('./'))
        .pipe(gulp.dest('./dist'));
});

[benderTheCrime]

@sindresorhus that makes sense and now that you put it that way (in the context of gulp), I understand. Thanks!

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On Oct 1, 2015, at 11:36 AM, Sindre Sorhus [e-mail] wrote:

@benderTheCrime That’s not how it’s done with Gulp. Idionmatic Gulp prefers separate plugins doing one thing, instead of every plugins doing everything. You already got a good answer. Another option is to source all the files, and use gulp-if to only run Babel on the JS files. gulp-filter would work too if you have many plugins that should run on only JS files.

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