Gulp: Allow overriding node flags (namely --stack_size)

[tusbar]

Hi,

I just stumbled upon an issue with gulp-uglify, which actually lies within uglify2 itself:

If a JS file contains too many consecutive statements, it requires a bigger stack size, and there’s no way to override that with gulp other than running node --stack_size=2048 $(which gulp) build.

Could this be added to gulp?

[phated]

v8 flags are already supported by gulp, if gulp sees a flag that is a flag that v8 looks for, we do a "flagged respawn" of the process. Just add it to your command like gulp build --stack_size=2048

[tusbar]

Oh, indeed. It does not seem to be parsing flags properly though.

$ gulp build --stack_size=2048
[18:57:22] Node flags detected:
Error: missing value for flag --stack_size of type int
Try --help for options
node: bad option: --stack_size
[18:57:22] Respawned to PID: 39573

[phated]

Sounds like a bug in https://github.com/js-cli/js-flagged-respawn - can you open an issue over there? A failing test would also help a ton

[tusbar]

Will do.

[tusbar]

@phated https://github.com/js-cli/js-flagged-respawn/pull/1

[dearlordchen]

I encoutered the node-flag problem like below
gulp --page a

/usr/local/bin/node: bad option: --page
[17:35:06] Node flags detected: --page
[17:35:06] Respawned to PID: 11748

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and i finnally found the solution: install gulp-cli globally
sudo npm install gulp-cli -g