Prevent gulp to minify code on local machine - angularjs

Question

I started a project with [RDash angular dashboard][1] which using gulp.
this is the first time I work with gulp and the problem is that while I'm working locally I can't debug because it minify css/js/html files.
How can I prevent from gulp to minify while working locally?
Here is what I have on gulpfile.js:
var gulp = require('gulp'),
usemin = require('gulp-usemin'),
wrap = require('gulp-wrap'),
connect = require('gulp-connect'),
watch = require('gulp-watch'),
minifyCss = require('gulp-minify-css'),
minifyJs = require('gulp-uglify'),
concat = require('gulp-concat'),
less = require('gulp-less'),
rename = require('gulp-rename'),
minifyHTML = require('gulp-minify-html');
var paths = {
scripts: 'src/js/**/*.*',
styles: 'src/less/**/*.*',
images: 'src/img/**/*.*',
templates: 'src/templates/**/*.html',
index: 'src/index.html',
bower_fonts: 'src/components/**/*.{ttf,woff,eof,svg}',
};
/**
* Handle bower components from index
*/
gulp.task('usemin', function() {
return gulp.src(paths.index)
.pipe(usemin({
js: [minifyJs(), 'concat'],
css: [minifyCss({keepSpecialComments: 0}), 'concat'],
}))
.pipe(gulp.dest('dist/'));
});
/**
* Copy assets
*/
gulp.task('build-assets', ['copy-bower_fonts']);
gulp.task('copy-bower_fonts', function() {
return gulp.src(paths.bower_fonts)
.pipe(rename({
dirname: '/fonts'
}))
.pipe(gulp.dest('dist/lib'));
});
/**
* Handle custom files
*/
gulp.task('build-custom', ['custom-images', 'custom-js', 'custom-less', 'custom-templates']);
gulp.task('custom-images', function() {
return gulp.src(paths.images)
.pipe(gulp.dest('dist/img'));
});
gulp.task('custom-js', function() {
return gulp.src(paths.scripts)
.pipe(minifyJs())
.pipe(concat('dashboard.min.js'))
.pipe(gulp.dest('dist/js'));
});
gulp.task('custom-less', function() {
return gulp.src(paths.styles)
.pipe(less())
.pipe(gulp.dest('dist/css'));
});
gulp.task('custom-templates', function() {
return gulp.src(paths.templates)
.pipe(minifyHTML())
.pipe(gulp.dest('dist/templates'));
});
/**
* Watch custom files
*/
gulp.task('watch', function() {
gulp.watch([paths.images], ['custom-images']);
gulp.watch([paths.styles], ['custom-less']);
gulp.watch([paths.scripts], ['custom-js']);
gulp.watch([paths.templates], ['custom-templates']);
gulp.watch([paths.index], ['usemin']);
});
/**
* Live reload server
*/
gulp.task('webserver', function() {
connect.server({
root: 'dist',
livereload: true,
port: 8888
});
});
gulp.task('livereload', function() {
gulp.src(['dist/**/*.*'])
.pipe(watch())
.pipe(connect.reload());
});
/**
* Gulp tasks
*/
gulp.task('build', ['usemin', 'build-assets', 'build-custom']);
gulp.task('default', ['build', 'webserver', 'livereload', 'watch']);

Answer 1

You should add gulp-minify and use it as follows:
var minify = require('gulp-minify');
gulp.task('compress', function() {
gulp.src('lib/*.js')
.pipe(minify({
exclude: ['tasks'],
ignoreFiles: ['.combo.js', '-min.js']
}))
.pipe(gulp.dest('dist'))
});
Pass the files that you dont want to minify to the exclude.
In your code, you have specified that you want to minify all of the files here:
gulp.task('usemin', function() {
return gulp.src(paths.index)
.pipe(usemin({
js: [minifyJs(), 'concat'],
css: [minifyCss({keepSpecialComments: 0}), 'concat'],
}))
.pipe(gulp.dest('dist/'));
});
In line
.pipe(usemin({..})
Just dont use this usemin task, and you should be fine