excluding certain directories gulp-inject

Question

Ignoring bower_components while including css and javascript files

gulp.task('files', function(){
    var target = gulp.src("./client/index.html");
    var sources = gulp.src(["./client/**/*.js", "./client/**/*.css"], {read: false});

    target.pipe(inject(sources))
        .pipe(gulp.dest("./client"))    
});

I don't want to include client/bower_components in my index.html? Is there a way i can specify what files to include in my sources ?

https://github.com/klei/gulp-inject#optionsignorepath

Answer 1

Exclude the bower_components like this.

var sources = gulp.src(["!./client/bower_components/**/*"
                 "./client/**/*.js", "./client/**/*.css"], {read: false});

Answer 2

I believe that the order matters. For example, let's say I have a tests folder inside of my client folder where all the client-side code lives. I don't want to include my specs in the index.html I am generating.

Originally I had

var sources = gulp.src([
    '!./client/tests/**/*', // exclude the specs up front, didn't work
    './client/config/app.js',
    './client/config/*.js',
    './client/**/*.js', // conflicts with the tests exclusion   
    './client/**/*.css'
], {read: false});

but it was still injecting the specs into my html! The problem was that I was telling gulp to include all of the client folders AFTER I told it to exclude one of the client folders. So I just had to put the excluded folder at the end to fix the issue.

var sources = gulp.src([
    './client/config/app.js',
    './client/config/*.js',
    './client/**/*.js',
    './client/**/*.css',
    '!./client/tests/**/*' // exclude the specs at the end, works!
], {read: false});