
<h2>Use Gulp, Gulp Plugins and Browserify to build Angular app</h2>
<p>This sample app use following technologies.</p>
<ol>
  <li>Node.js</li>
  <li>Angular.js</li>
  <li>Browserify</li>
  <li>Gulp</li>
  <li>gulp-connect</li>
  <li>gulp-ng-annotate</li>
</ol>
<p>
  The files structure will be following, also you can check the sample code
  at&nbsp;<a
    href="https://github.com/keke78ui9/gulp_angular_browserify_sample1"
    target="_blank"
    >Github</a
  >. After you download the code, run following command should be able to start
  your app. The fisrt command will install all the node.js dependecy modules,
  and second command will run the gulp task defined at
  <code>gulpfile.js</code>
</p>
<pre class="language-javascript">
npm install -d
gulp
</pre>
<p>
  <code>App</code> folder are all the client side file for build angular app.
</p>
<p><code>Gulpfile</code> contains all the client side task build.</p>
<p>
  <code>Index.html</code> is the html page will be request by the client, also
  contains the angular app.
</p>
<p><code>package.json</code> contains all the dependencies for this example.</p>
<ul>
  <li>gulp-test1</li>
  <ul>
    <li>app</li>
    <ul>
      <li>controllers</li>
      <ul>
        <li>controller1.js</li>
        <li>controller2.js</li>
        <li>controller3.js</li>
      </ul>
      <li>views</li>
      <ul>
        <li>controller1.html</li>
        <li>controller2.html</li>
        <li>controller3.html</li>
      </ul>
      <li>app.js</li>
    </ul>
    <li>gulpfile.js</li>
    <li>index.html</li>
    <li>package.json</li>
  </ul>
</ul>
<h3>package.json</h3>
<p>
  The main module here are angular, angular-route and browserify, because
  browserify will take care of angular app's dependency that's why need angular
  as node module. Also, gulp and gulp's plugin modules, the gulp-np-annotate
  will fix the issue when mininize js in angular, gulp-connect will run a test
  app.
</p>
<pre class="language-xml">
{
  "name": "gulp-test1",
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "description": "gulp-test1",
  "dependencies": {
    "angular": "^1.5.5",
    "gulp": "^3.9.1"
  },
  "devDependencies": {
    "angular": "^1.5.5",
    "angular-route": "^1.5.5",
    "browserify": "^13.0.0",
    "gulp": "^3.9.1",
    "gulp-concat": "^2.6.0",
    "gulp-connect": "^3.2.2",
    "gulp-cssmin": "^0.1.7",
    "gulp-ng-annotate": "^2.0.0",
    "gulp-uglify": "^1.5.3",
    "vinyl-source-stream": "^1.1.0"
  },
  "author": "dake"
}
</pre>
<h3>Angular App</h3>
<p>
  Following is the example code use browserify with angular, broserify will take
  all the dependencies for angular. For example, following code is the
  <code>app.js</code> at angular.js, which define where is the controller and
  views, in angualr it is useing <code>angular-route</code>, and ofcourse,
  app.js is also depend on <code>angular.js</code>. In Browserify, it is very
  simple to define, you just need to write, <code>require('angular')</code>,
  browserify will take care the dependency for you. Similar to the angular
  controllers, you'll need to define as
  <code>require('./controllers/controller1');</code>.
</p>
<pre class="language-javascript">
'use strict';
require('angular');
require('angular-route');
var app = angular.module('gulp.test1', ['ngRoute']);

require('./controllers/controller1');
require('./controllers/controller2');
require('./controllers/controller3');

app.config(function ($routeProvider) {
    $routeProvider
       .when('/', {
        templateUrl: 'views/controller1.html',
        controller: 'controller1',
        controllerAs: 'controller1'
      })
      .when('/1', {
        templateUrl: 'views/controller2.html',
        controller: 'controller2',
        controllerAs: 'controller2'
      })
       .when('/2', {
        templateUrl: 'views/controller3.html',
        controller: 'controller3',
        controllerAs: 'controller3'
      })
      .otherwise({
        redirectTo: '/'
      });
  });

</pre>
<pre class="language-javascript">
'use strict';

angular.module('gulp.test1')
  .controller('controller1', function ($scope) {
    $scope.message = 'controller1!';
});
</pre>
<pre class="language-html">
&lt;h2&gt;message: {{message}}&lt;/h2&gt;
</pre>
<h4>How do I use browserify to bundle all javascript</h4>
<p>
  This is sample task at gulpfile.js, at end of this task, it will create a
  javascript combined all the dependency javascript. In our previous
  <code>app.js</code>. It shouldn't contains angular.js angular-route.js, all
  the angular controllers and the app.js itself.
</p>
<pre class="language-javascript">
gulp.task('browserify', function () {
    return browserify('./app/app.js')
        .bundle()
        .pipe(source('app.js'))
        .pipe(gulp.dest('./public/js/'));
});

</pre>
<h3>index.html</h3>
<p>
  In this example, <code>index.html</code> is the actual web page, as you can
  see it is any reference to the minified javascript.
</p>
<pre class="language-html">
&lt;!doctype html&gt;
&lt;html&gt;
  &lt;head&gt;
    &lt;meta charset="utf-8"&gt;
    &lt;title&gt;&lt;/title&gt;
    &lt;meta name="description" content=""&gt;
    &lt;meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width"&gt;
    &lt;script src="/js/app.min.js"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;
  &lt;/head&gt;
  &lt;body&gt;
    &lt;div  ng-app="gulp.test1"&gt;
      &lt;div ng-view&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
    &lt;/div&gt;
     &lt;ul&gt;
      &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="/#"&gt;home&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
      &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="/#1"&gt;main&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
      &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="/#2"&gt;main1&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
    &lt;/ul&gt;
  &lt;/body&gt;
&lt;/html&gt;
</pre>
<h3>gulpfile.js</h3>
<pre class="language-javascript">
/// setup gulp 

var gulp = require('gulp');
var connect = require('gulp-connect');
// requires browserify and vinyl-source-stream
var browserify = require('browserify');
var source = require('vinyl-source-stream');
var concat = require('gulp-concat');
//var cssmin = require("gulp-cssmin");
var uglify = require("gulp-uglify");
var ngAnnotate = require('gulp-ng-annotate');

gulp.task('connect', function () {
    connect.server({
        root: 'public',
        port: 4000
    })
});

gulp.task('browserify', function () {
    // Grabs the app.js file
    return browserify('./app/app.js')
        // bundles it and creates a file called main.js
        .bundle()
        .pipe(source('app.js'))
        // saves it the public/js/ directory
        .pipe(gulp.dest('./public/js/'));
});


gulp.task("min:js", function () {

    gulp.src(["./public/js/app.js"], { base: "." })
    .pipe(ngAnnotate())
    .pipe(concat("./public/js/app.min.js"))
    .pipe(uglify())
    .pipe(gulp.dest("."));
});

gulp.task("min", ["min:js"]);

// Views task
gulp.task('views', function () {

    // Any other view files from app/views
    gulp.src('./app/views/**/*')
    // Will be put in the dist/views folder
    .pipe(gulp.dest('./public/views/'));
    // copy html to production folder
    gulp.src('./index.html').pipe(gulp.dest('./public/'));
});

gulp.task('watch', function () {
    gulp.watch('app/**/*.js', ['browserify','views']);
});

gulp.task('default', ['browserify', 'views', 'min', 'watch','connect']);
</pre>
<h3><span style="font-size: 14px">References or Links</span></h3>
<ol>
  <li>
    <a href="http://gulpjs.com/plugins/" target="_blank">gulp's plugins</a
    ><small> There's thousands of plugins for gulp</small>
  </li>
  <li>
    <a href="http://browserify.org/" target="_blank">browserify</a> Official
    website
  </li>
  <li>
    <a href="https://angularjs.org/" target="_blank">angular1 and angular2</a>
  </li>
  <li>
    <a href="https://github.com/Pestov/essential-gulp-plugins" target="_blank"
      >Most popular gulp plugins</a
    >
  </li>
</ol>
<h3>Conclusion</h3>
<p>
  Gulp is very powerful client side task runner, there're many different plugins
  you can use, also popular IDE visual studio is also start to use gulp/grunt as
  client side task runner to build assets. That means more people will start
  using it and create modules for it. Also with browserify it will even become
  more powerful, it use node.js to combined all client side resources.
</p>


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