Gulpjs combine two tasks into a single task

Question

I currently have two tasks, that both compile sass files. I would still like to concat the two directories into separate files but it seems that it would be more maintainable if I could simply create a 'sass' task that would be responsible for all of the sass compilation.

// Compile Our Sass
gulp.task('bootstrap-sass', function() {
  return gulp.src('./public/bower/bootstrap-sass/lib/*.scss')
    .pipe(sass())
    .pipe(contact('bootstrap.css'))
    .pipe(gulp.dest('./public/dist/css'));
});

gulp.task('site-sass', function() {
  return gulp.src('./public/app/scss/*.scss')
    .pipe(sass())
    .pipe(contact('site.css'))
    .pipe(gulp.dest('./public/dist/css'));
});

UPDATE:

I've tried this:

// Compile Our Sass
gulp.task('sass', function() {
  var bootstrap = function() {
    return gulp
      .src('./public/bower/bootstrap-sass/lib/*.scss')
      .pipe(sass())
      .pipe(concat('bootstrap.css'))
      .pipe(gulp.dest('./public/dist/css'));
  };

  var site = function() {
    return gulp
      .src('./public/src/scss/*.scss')
      .pipe(sass())
      .pipe(concat('site.css'))
      .pipe(gulp.dest('./public/dist/css'));
  };

  return Promise.all([bootstrap, site]);
});

But now it appears that neither file is being compiled. Any suggestions on what I am doing wrong?

Answer 1

I think the proper way of doing this is using task dependency.

In gulp you can define tasks that needs to be run before a given task.

For instance:

gulp.task('scripts', ['clean'], function () {
    // gulp.src( ...
});

When doing gulp scripts in the Terminal, clean is run before the scripts task.

In your example I'd have the two seperate SASS tasks as a dependency of a common SASS task. Something like:

// Compile Our Sass
gulp.task('bootstrap-sass', function() {
  return gulp.src('./public/bower/bootstrap-sass/lib/*.scss')
    .pipe(sass())
    .pipe(contact('bootstrap.css'))
    .pipe(gulp.dest('./public/dist/css'));
});

gulp.task('site-sass', function() {
  return gulp.src('./public/app/scss/*.scss')
    .pipe(sass())
    .pipe(contact('site.css'))
    .pipe(gulp.dest('./public/dist/css'));
});

gulp.task('sass', ['bootstrap-sass', 'site-sass']);

You read more about the task dependecy on the Gulp recipes section: https://github.com/gulpjs/gulp/blob/master/docs/recipes/running-tasks-in-series.md