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Hands-On Full Stack Web Development with Aurelia
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Hands-On Full Stack Web Development with Aurelia

by Diego Argüelles Rojas, Erikson Murrugarra Murrugarra Sifuentes
June 2018
Intermediate to advanced
348 pages
8h 19m
English
Packt Publishing
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Understanding Gulp

Gulp is an open source JavaScript-based task runner, which uses code-over-configuration approach to define its tasks. These could be the following:

  • Bundling and minifying libraries and style sheets
  • Refreshing your browser when you save a file
  • Quickly running unit tests
  • Running code analysis
  • LESS/SASS to CSS compilation
  • Copying modified files to an output directory

This tool uses the stream module of Node.js; first of all, we need to define what a stream is. It can be defined as a tool that allows data reading on one file and takes it to another place through pipes methods. The principal feature of Gulp.js is that it does not write files/folders into the hard drive, like other automation tools. That's a good feature, because ...

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ISBN: 9781788833202