Dynamic filename in gulp-zip

Question

I try to generate multiple zip files with gulp-zip

packages
- package-1
- package-2

to

build
- package-1.zip
- package-2.zip

At the moment my task looks like this:

gulp.task('zip', function () {
    return gulp.src("packages/*")
    .pipe(zip("archive.zip"))
    .pipe(gulp.dest("build"));
});

This generates a single zip file names archive.zip which contains my two packages.

How to get 2 separate zipfiles?

How to pass the folder name to the zip function?

Answer 1

You can call the zip command twice in your zip task, like so:

gulp.task('zip', function () {
    gulp.src("packages/package-1/**")
        .pipe(zip("archive-1.zip"))
        .pipe(gulp.dest("build"));
    return gulp.src("packages/package-2
        .pipe(zip("archive-2.zip"))
        .pipe(gulp.dest("build"));
});

This will result in 2 zip-files in your build folder. Hope this helps.