Concat scripts in order with Gulp

Another thing that helps if you need some files to come after a blob of files, is to exclude specific files from your glob, like so:

[
  '/src/**/!(foobar)*.js', // all files that end in .js EXCEPT foobar*.js
  '/src/js/foobar.js',
]

You can combine this with specifying files that need to come first as explained in Chad Johnson's answer.

I had a similar problem recently with Grunt when building my AngularJS app. Here's a question I posted.

What I ended up doing is to explicitly list the files in order in the grunt config. The config file will then look like this:

[
  '/path/to/app.js',
  '/path/to/mymodule/mymodule.js',
  '/path/to/mymodule/mymodule/*.js'
]

Grunt is able to figure out which files are duplicates and not include them. The same technique will work with Gulp as well.