Gulp copy directory over and files

Question

I have a directory setup like this:

• node_modules
• src
  • index.js

I'm trying to copy these to a dist folder like this:

• node_modules
• index.js

I've tried a number of variations, such as

gulp.src(['src/**/*', 'node_modules/**']).pipe(gulp.dest('dist'));

But this places all of the node_modules in the /dist and not within the node_modules directory.

Any idea how I can do this?

Answer 1

You need to tell gulp.src that the base directory for node_modules/** is . so that the node_modules created at the destination. However, you cannot set the base to . for src/**/* because that would mean that the src directory would be created in your destination. So you need in effect to specify two sets of sources. gulp-add-src can help with this.

Something like this should work:

var addsrc = require("gulp-add-src");

gulp.src('src/**/*')
    .pipe(addsrc('node_modules/**', { base: '.'})
    .pipe(gulp.dest('dist'));