gulp-dnx

Gulp plugin for ASP.NET 5. You can use this plugin to integrate ASP.NET 5 dnu build, dnu restore and dnx command execution (for the commands available inside you project.json file). Check out the example inside the repository.

Installation

You can install gulp-dnx plugin through npm:

``
npm install gulp-dnx
`

Preferably, you can save this as dev dependency:

`
npm install gulp-dnx --save-dev
`

Usage

`javascript
var gulp = require('gulp'),
dnx = require("gulp-dnx");
gulp.task('default', function(cb) {
return gulp.start('dnx-run');
});
gulp.task('dnx-run', dnx('kestrel'));
`

The default function restores the packages according to your project.json file and runs the web command inside the project.json file. You can pass a few options to this to choose what's actually going to run:

`javascript
// the default options
var options = {
restore: true,
build: false,
run: true,
cwd: './'
};
var dnxCommand = 'web';
gulp.task('dnx-run', dnx(dnxCommand, options));
`

There are also shorthand methods for specific tasks:

`javascript
//runs the project.json's command 'kestrel'
gulp.task('dnx-run', dnx('kestrel'));
// only restores the packages
gulp.task('dnu-restore', dnx.restore());
// only builds the project
gulp.task('dnu-build', dnx.build());
// restores the packages and builds the project
gulp.task('dnu-restore-build', dnx.restoreBuild());
`

gulp-dnx also integrates with dnx --watch to run your commands. So, it will restart your server when you change a code file.

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You can change the working directory for the specific command to run passing cwd as an option to the main method or as parameter to the shorthand methods.

`javascript
//assuming project.json is inside the 'server' directory
var options = {
cwd: './server/'
};
gulp.task('dnx-run', dnx('web', options));

//using the shorthand methods
gulp.task('dnx-restore', dnx.restore('./server/'));
gulp.task('dnu-build', dnx.build('./server/'));
gulp.task('dnu-restore-build', dnx.restoreBuild('./server/'));
``