JavaScript and JSON Essentials - Second Edition

Creating tasks in gulp.js

We are going to create a first task to greet our readers. Again, let us go through a simple stepwise procedure so that nothing is missed out.

1. First, let us write some pluggable code in gulpfile.js, as follows:

const gulp = require('gulp');gulp.task('default', () => {    console.log("Greetings to Readers!");})

In preceding snippet, the task method of gulp module requires two parameters. The first one is name of task as a string and second parameter is callback where we can write the actual logic behind the specific task. 

2. Go back to the Terminal and run the gulp command. You will receive the following output: