Is there a gulp plugin to run Laravel Artisan tasks? - laravel

Question

I haven't been able to find a gulp plugin whose purpose is to simply run Laravel Artisan tasks. It seems to me this would be useful.
I imagine it would be quite trivial, which makes me think it must exist.
I looked at Laravel Elixir but this doesn't seem to do what I want.
Not strictly on topic, but the problem at hand follows.
I briefly played with gulp-shell, gulp-run, and #eddieajau/shell, and for a particular task don't seem to be having any luck: the command which runs just fine when run manually from the console seems to hang. ps shows it is running but apparently doing nothing. I'm probably missing something simple, but invoking shell commands from node always seems fiddly.
My current code in Coffee is this:
gulp.task 'twig', ->
shell = require '#eddieajau/shell'
shell.setLogger console.log
return shell.exec 'php', ['artisan', 'twig:lint'],
cwd: __dirname
This is supposed to return a promise, which gulp.task is supposed to notice and deal with. But when I run it it appears to hang.

Answer 1

I don't pretend to know Coffeescript, however gulp-shell is blacklisted (meaning it doesn't do things "the gulp way").
gulp-exec may possibly do what you're looking for, however you don't specifically need that for a direct shell call. Here's what I have in my gulpfile (non-coffeescript) to run php artisan ide-helper:generate after any of my models change:
var exec = require('child_process').exec;
gulp.task('generate:ide-helper', function (cb) {
exec('php artisan ide-helper:generate', function (err, stdout, stderr) {
console.log(stdout);
console.log(stderr);
cb(err);
});
});