Chapter 1: How to Use Gulp.js to Automate Your CSS Tasks
by Craig Buckler
In this article, we look at how you can use Gulp.js to automate a range of repetitive CSS development tasks to speed up your workflow.
Web development requires little more than a text editor. However, you’ ll quickly become frustrated with the repetitive tasks that are essential for a modern website and fast performance, such as:
- converting or transpiling
- minimizing file sizes
- concatenating files
- minifying production code
- deploying updates to development, staging and live production servers.
Some tasks must be repeated every time you make a change. The most infallible developer will forget to optimize an image or two and pre-production tasks become increasingly arduous. ...
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