Each return a stream.
Gulp vinyl stream.
The src stream produces vinyl objects and the dest stream consumes vinyl objects.
Vinyl adapters can expose extra methods that might be specific to their input output medium such as the symlink method vinyl fs provides.
There are the gulp browserify and gulpify plugins which you can use in combination with gulp to get browserify working in your build.
When a file is read by src a vinyl object is generated to represent the file including the path contents and other metadata.
A virtual file format.
Gulp did not invent streams they are part of node but it standardizes them for build systems in a way that code from different authors can work togehter without knowing about each other.
Take for example browserify.
A vinyl adapter simply exposes a src globs and a dest folder method.
Vinyl source stream use conventional text streams at the start of your gulp or vinyl pipelines making for nicer interoperability with the existing npm stream ecosystem.
Take for example browserify.
Streams in node js work a lot like streams work on youtube.
Src creates a stream for reading vinyl objects from the file system.
The src stream produces vinyl objects and the dest stream consumes vinyl objects.
Take for example browserify.
There are the gulp browserify and gulpify plugins which you can use in combination with gulp to get browserify working in your build.
When creating your own vinyl objects instead of generating with src use the external vinyl module as.
Vinyl source stream use conventional text streams at the start of your gulp or vinyl pipelines making for nicer interoperability with the existing npm stream ecosystem.
Vinyl objects can have transformations applied using plugins they may also be persisted to the file system using dest.
Each return a stream.
For anyone that found this repo this is the correct way to use react browserify gulp other approaches do silly things having a browserify transform with vinyl source stream is the way to go.
Vinyl adapters can expose extra methods that might be specific to their input output medium such as the symlink method vinyl fs provides.
Boms byte order marks have no purpose in utf 8 and will be removed from utf 8 files read by src unless disabled using the removebom option.