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An Introduction to Gulp.js

An Introduction to Gulp.js


Course details

3.6∙5 Ratings2 reviews

Published
April 2019
Publisher
SitePoint
Chapters
2

About the course

Developers spend precious little time coding. Even if we ignore irritating meetings, much of the job involves basic tasks that can sap your working day, such as generating HTML from templates and content files, compressing new and modified images, transpiling ES6 to cross-browser-compatible ES5, and so on. These 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. To spend your time on more productive taks, you need a task runner or build process.

In this guide, we'll introduce Gulp.js. Gulp may not be the newest tool on the block, it remains one of the fastest and most flexible Node.js task runners. We'll start out by installing Gulp and using it to carry out some basic tasks, such as compressing images, and then move on to using it for more advanced taks, like populating a database.

Author

Craig Buckler

Craig Buckler

Craig is a freelance UK web consultant who built his first page for IE2.0 in 1995. Since that time he's been advocating standards, accessibility, and best-practice HTML5 techniques. He's created enterprise specifications, websites and online applications for companies and organisations including the UK Parliament, the European Parliament, the Department of Energy & Climate Change, Microsoft, and more. He's written more than 1,000 articles for SitePoint and you can find him @craigbuckler.

Course Outline

Chapter 1: Getting Started with Gulp.js
Chapter 2: Gulp.js in More Depth

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Course details

3.6∙5 Ratings2 reviews

Published
April 2019
Publisher
SitePoint
Chapters
2

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