Plugin guidelines - tests about gulp HOT 8 CLOSED

cc @lazd

I also want make a gulp plugin compliance test suite that actually verifies that a plugin meets the guidelines (passing in streams, buffers, nulls, testing backpressure, etc.). In our search engine it would be cool to shitlist plugins that don't pass the test suite. The plugin guidelines are very strict but this makes testing for compliance extremely simple.

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Also cc @hparra since he owns generator-gulp-plugin. We can build the compliance suite into that.

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👍 I'm all for that. Better to be overly strict at first than the opposite.

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Added it to the plugin guidelines.

We should add a wiki page that covers testing strategies. There's already a short section on testing plugins that deal with streams, but we could do better.

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@lazd awesome!

Totally unrelated, but I just published my first gulp plugin and pretty sure it follows all the best practises, but if you have a chance, would love if you could check it out, and let me know if anything could be improved.

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@sindresorhus Looks good to me! One pattern I have used for validation plugins is to attach errors to the file object and pass it along. This lets people write their own reporters and stick them in after the validator. You can provide a .reporter() function on the plugin that returns a new reporter stream to exposes built-in reporters.

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I'll be glad to merge test suites and commentary into generator.

Also a TODO: notify all pre-gulp3 plugin writers of these new guidelines. Many do not handle streams at all, etc.

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Moving this to #68

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