rev

Task - rev

The rev task is a really simple one. Its role is to read the content of a given file, generate a hash and prepend that hash to the original filename.

rev: {
  js: ['publish/js/*.js'],
  css: ['publish/css/*.css'],
  img: ['publish/img/*']
},

From this configuration example, the rev task will iterate through each expanded files for js / css / img subtasks and generate a hash from their content and rename each file accordingly.

A scripts.js file will be renamed into something like 12345678.scripts.js. The hash will change only when the content changes.

Helpers

hash

hash helper takes care of files revving, by renaming any files in the given files pattern(s), with passed in options.

task.helper('hash', files, options);

• files - String or Array of glob pattern
• options - (optional) An Hash object where:
  • cwd - Base directory to work from, glob patterns are prepended to this path.

md5

md5 helper is a basic wrapper around crypto.createHash, with given algorithm and encoding. Both are optional and defaults to md5 and hex values.

task.helper('md5', file, algorithm, encoding);