How can I share my bundle configuration with other applications in different languages?

Sometimes, you might want your bundle configuration to be easily parsed in other languages (such as PHP) or by other applications. Fortunately, the configuration for gulp-bundle-assets is a JSON object, an inter-operable format natively supported by most major programming languages.

To expose the JSON object in your bundle config file, you can simply omit the module.exports = and the ;, and even rename the file as a .json if you wish:

bundle.config.json

{
  bundle: {
    main: {
      scripts: [
        './content/js/foo.js',
        './content/js/baz.js'
      ],
      styles: './content/**/*.css'
    },
    vendor: {
      scripts: './bower_components/angular/angular.js'
    }
  },
  copy: './content/**/*.{png,svg}'
}

You can load this file into a gulp stream exactly the same way you would the .js version:

// gulpfile.js
var gulp = require('gulp'),
  bundle = require('gulp-bundle-assets');

gulp.task('bundle', function() {
  return gulp.src('./bundle.config.json')
    .pipe(bundle())
    .pipe(gulp.dest('./public'));
});

It then becomes easy to access your bundle configuration in other languages, such as PHP:

$bundle = json_decode(file_get_contents('./bundle.config.json', FILE_USE_INCLUDE_PATH),true);