I am working on minification of CSS using gulp.
Problem is when I need to debug CSS, I see all css are in knx.dev.css
,
but I need to build a solution when do inspect element it can lead to original file from where it has been generated
package.json
{
"main": "index.js",
"dependencies": {
"gulp": "^3.9.1"
},
"devDependencies": {
"gulp-bundle-files": "^1.9.5110",
"gulp-concat": "^2.6.1",
"gulp-cssmin": "^0.2.0",
"gulp-rename": "^1.2.2"
},
"scripts": {
"build": "gulp",
"start": "gulp dev_css"
}
}
Gulp task
var gulp = require('gulp');
var cssmin = require('gulp-cssmin');
var rename = require('gulp-rename');
var concat = require('gulp-concat');
var css_file_list = [
//List of files];
gulp.task('default', function () {
gulp.src(css_file_list)
.pipe(cssmin())
.pipe(rename({suffix: '.min'}))
.pipe(concat('knx.min.css'))
.pipe(gulp.dest('./'));
});
gulp.task('dev_css', function () {
gulp.src(css_file_list)
.pipe(concat('knx.dev.css'))
.pipe(gulp.dest('./'));
});
@muneer-alam your idea works but I have found another way using gulp-sourcemaps
so for knx.dev.css
gulp build I have changed gulp build as below
var sourcemaps = require('gulp-sourcemaps');
.
.
.
gulp.task('dev_css',function () {
return gulp.src(css_file_list)
.pipe(sourcemaps.init())
.pipe(concat('knx.dev.css'))
.pipe(sourcemaps.write())
.pipe(gulp.dest('./'));
});
It give me a source map i.e. going to proper file when I do inspect element.