Gulp

Faster and more efficient workflow with the popular Gulp toolkit.

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Introduction

Gulp is an open source cross-platform task runner tool that give developers the freedom to automate many tasks. Gulp manages tasks like bundling and minifying scripts and style sheets, compiling less or sass to css styles, deploying files to servers, image compressing, etc.

Setup

  1. You need Node.js and Gulp installed on your machine, If you already have them installed skip to step 2.
  2. Run npm install --global gulp-cli command. If you already have Gulp CLI installed, skip this step.
  3. Navigate to the root directory and run npm install or to install the local dependencies listed in package.json.
  4. Run gulp watch command.