Support passing configuration data (package.json, bower.json, ...) as object or string instead of using additional external configuration files

[alp82]

Currently it's not possible to have a single-file configuration for frontend projects. If you use gulp and need package management, you have at least two configuration files.

What about passing a Javascript object to gulp-install instead of referencing an external file?

It could look like this:

{
  "package.json": {
    "name": "my-project",
    "version": "1.0.0",
    "author": "Your Name <your.name@example.org>",
    "license": "MIT"
  },
  "requirements.txt": [
    "some-framework==0.9.4",
    "another-library>=0.2"
  ]
}

[tipok]

+1

[joakimbeng]

-1

If you want to create virtual files like that I recommend creating those with vinyl and piping them to gulp-install.