Gulp Common

Introduction

Gulp Common is a helper module providing supporting gulp tasks for building and deployment of applications for various hardware platforms.

Including Gulp Toolchain in an application.

Including gulp tools in sample code directory requires very minimal effort from developer.

First of all appropriate references need to be included in package.json:

    "gulp": "^3.9.1",
    "gulp-common": "Azure/gulp-common.git#release-1.0.11"

Secondly, gulpfile.js shall be created with following content:

    require('gulp-common')(require('gulp'), '<board identifier>');

Currently supported board identifiers:

• arduino-esp8266-huzzah
• arduino-esp8266-thingdev
• arduino-adafruit-samd-feather-m0
• arduino-edison
• raspberry-pi-c
• raspberry-pi-node

Commands Provided by Gulp

Installing Tools

Following command will install tools on either developer's machine and the board.

$ gulp install-tools

In the future it will be possible to specify additional options, for example:

$ gulp install-tools docker

Building Code

Following command will build sample code:

$ gulp build

Command is not applicable to Node.js.

Deploying Code / Binary

Following command will deploy Node.js source code or C/C++ executable to the board:

$ gulp deploy

Command is not applicable to Node.js.

Running Code

Following command will execute Node.js application or C/C++ executable:

$ gulp run

Command can be executed with debug parameter to start applicatin in debugging mode:

$ gulp run debug