TypeScript: Modern JavaScript Development

Configuring the automated build

Just as we did in Chapter 2, Automating Your Development Workflow, we need to create a configuration file to configure the desired Gulp tasks. So let's create a file named gulpfile.js and import the required Gulp plugins:

var gulp        = require("gulp"),
    browserify  = require("browserify"),
    source      = require("vinyl-source-stream"),
    buffer      = require("vinyl-buffer"),
    tslint      = require("gulp-tslint"),
    tsc         = require("gulp-typescript"),
    karma       = require("karma").server,
    coveralls   = require('gulp-coveralls'),
    uglify      = require("gulp-uglify"),
    runSequence = require("run-sequence"),
    header      = require("gulp-header"),
    browserSync = require("browser-sync"),
    reload      = browserSync.reload,
    pkg         = require(__dirname + "/package.json"); 

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