gulp-sourcemaps
npm package of node.js
Source are basically used along with some other plugin. for example when you use gulp-clean-css the minified css file is created but with the help of source maps we can also reach the original file with a url which was embedded in the min file.
var gulp = require('gulp');
var cleanCss = require('gulp-clean-css');
var sourcemaps = require('gulp-sourcemaps');
// name of the task is : source-maps
gulp.task('source-maps', function() {
return gulp.src('source/*.css') //add your custom source here
.pipe(sourcemaps.init())
.pipe(cleanCSS())
.pipe(sourcemaps.write())
.pipe(gulp.dest('maps')); // name of the destination folder comes here
});
$gulp source-maps