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Issue created Sep 21, 2015 by Callum Macrae@callumacraeContributor

Better document using merge-stream to handle multiple streams being returned

A really commonly asked question, and one of the recipes, is how to return multiple streams in one task. The answer is to use merge-stream, of course, but would it be easier for users / cut down the number of support questions if merge-stream were a dependency of gulp and returning an array of streams called it automatically?

So this:

var gulp = require('gulp');
var merge = require('merge-stream');

gulp.task('test', function() {
  var bootstrap = gulp.src('bootstrap/js/*.js')
    .pipe(gulp.dest('public/bootstrap'));

  var jquery = gulp.src('jquery.cookie/jquery.cookie.js')
    .pipe(gulp.dest('public/jquery'));

  return merge(bootstrap, jquery);
});

Would turn into this:

var gulp = require('gulp');

gulp.task('test', function() {
  var bootstrap = gulp.src('bootstrap/js/*.js')
    .pipe(gulp.dest('public/bootstrap'));

  var jquery = gulp.src('jquery.cookie/jquery.cookie.js')
    .pipe(gulp.dest('public/jquery'));

  return [bootstrap, jquery];
});

It's pretty much the same, but a lot simpler to someone who doesn't understand streams or nodejs. Also, really easy to implement.

Thoughts?

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