Gulp task to show the routes in an express app (similar to rails rake routes).

show-express-routes-gulp-task.js

var app = require('../server/app.js').create()
var gulp = require('gulp');
var task = require('./index');

/*

  Output all the routes that the app supports

*/
gulp.task('routes', function() {
  var paths = {};

  for (method in app.routes) {
    // there's a slew of methods we don't care about
    if (-1 == ['get', 'post', 'put', 'delete', 'options'].indexOf(method)) break;
     
    var routes = app.routes[method];
    
    for (i in routes) {
      path = routes[i].path;
      paths[path] = paths[path] || {};
      paths[path].methods = paths[path].methods || [];

      if (-1 == paths[path].methods.indexOf(method))
        paths[path].methods.push(method);
    }
  }

  console.log('Here are the routes the app supports:');

  for (path in paths) {
    console.log(path, paths[path].methods);  
  }
});