Saul Salazar

Leverage gulp and the flexibility of JavaScript to automate slow, repetitive workflows and compose them into efficient build pipelines. What is gulp? Command Line Interface(CLI) Tool JavaScript Task Runner Code-over-configuration Data Streams Open Source Basically a tool for automating tasks like minification. Benefits Automate painful or time-consuming tasks Complex tasks management Easy to learn and simple to use Consistent and high quality ecosystem (strict guidelines for plugins) Everything can be processed in memory (streams) Use npm modules to do anything you want Over 2000 gulp plugins Use Examples Compressing images, css, html, js SASS, LESS, Stylus Jade, Marko, Handlebars, Dust Transpiling JavaScript ES6, CoffeeScript, TypeScript Unit testing with Mocha or Jasmine CSS Autoprefixer (-webkit-transform) Generating documentation with JSDoc Code linting Requirements You must have NodeJS installed: click here to download nodeJS