W3C Validation with Gulp

Since I was working on my thesis on Assistive Technology during my University days I was kind of obsesses on validating my HTML (and CSS) using W3C tools.

And proudly show the nowadays old fashioned W3C Badges:

Now that Front End building tools (i.e. Gulp) are integrated in almost every build process or CI I spent some of my time trying to automate this process of validation.

In order to do the validation I used w3cjs, gulp-util for the logging and map-stream for looping on the files passed as glob.

Here is what I ended up with.

import gulp from "gulp";
import util from "gulp-util";
import w3cjs from "w3cjs";
import mapStream from "map-stream";

function validationFeedback(file) {
  return result => {
    var messages = result.messages;
    //exclude the info messages
    messages = messages.filter(message => message.type !== "info");
    if (messages && messages.length) {
      $.util.log($.util.colors.red(file.path));
      messages.forEach(message => {
        $.util.log($.util.colors.red(message.message));
        $.util.log(message.extract);
      });
    } else {
      $.util.log(file.path + $.util.colors.green(" [  OK  ]"));
    }
  };
}

function validate(file) {
  w3cjs.validate({
    input: file.contents,
    callback: validationFeedback(file),
  });
}

gulp.task("validate", () =>
  gulp.src(["./dist/**/*.html"]).pipe(mapStream(validate))
);

In action

Unhappy scenario:

Happy scenario: