Node.js By Example

Discovering Gulp

Gulp is a build system that automates common tasks. As in Grunt, we can compose our asset pipeline. However, there are a few differences between the two:

• We still have a configuration file, but it is called gulpfile.js.
• Gulp is a streaming-based tool. It doesn't store anything on the disc when it is working. Grunt needs to create temporary files in order to pass data from one task to another, but Gulp keeps the data in the memory.
• Gulp follows the code-over-configuration principle. In the gulpfile.js file, we write our tasks like a regular Node.js script. We will see a demonstration of this in a minute.

To use Gulp, we have to install it first. The following command will set up the tool globally:

npm install -g gulp

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