Making vendor folder smaller for product deployment.

gistfile1.txt

gulp.task('zip-vendor', function () {
    return gulp.src(
        [
            'vendor/**/*',
            '!vendor/kartik-v/**',
            '!vendor/**/*.md',
            '!vendor/**/*.txt',
            '!vendor/**/*.pdf',
            '!vendor/**/LICENSE',
            '!vendor/**/CHANGES',
            '!vendor/**/README',
            '!vendor/**/VERSION',
            '!vendor/**/composer.json',
            '!vendor/**/.gitignore',
            '!vendor/**/docs',
            '!vendor/**/docs/**',
            '!vendor/**/tests',
            '!vendor/**/tests/**',
            '!vendor/**/unitTests',
            '!vendor/**/unitTests/**',
            '!vendor/**/.git',
            '!vendor/**/.git/**',
            '!vendor/**/examples',
            '!vendor/**/examples/**',
            '!vendor/**/build.xml',
            '!vendor/**/phpunit.xml',
            '!vendor/**/phpunit.xml.dist',
            '!vendor/**/mpdf/ttfonts/**',
        ],
        {base: '.'}
    )
        .pipe(zip('vendor.zip'))
        .pipe(gulp.dest(paths.deploy));
});

Unfortunately most package development do not employ composer facility to prune their packages.