Chapter 3: An Introduction to Gulp.js

by Craig Buckler

Developers spend precious little time coding. Even if we ignore irritating meetings, much of the job involves basic tasks which can sap your working day:

  • generating HTML from templates and content files
  • compressing new and modified images
  • compiling Sass to CSS code
  • removing console and debugger statements from scripts
  • transpiling ES6 to cross-browser–compatible ES5 code
  • code linting and validation
  • concatenating and minifying CSS and JavaScript files
  • deploying files to development, staging and production servers.

Tasks must be repeated every time you make a change. You may start with good intentions, but the most infallible developer will forget to compress an image or two. Over time, pre-production ...

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