Getting started with Gulp
First of all, install the Gulp package globally; this will give you access to the gulp
command:
$ npm install -g gulp
Once you have installed Gulp globally, you will need to install it in your local project in order to have access to the Gulp core utilities:
$ npm install -save-dev gulp
To configure the Gulp tasks, you will need to create a file called gulpfile.js
that Gulp will read every time you run the gulp
command. All Gulp tasks have a name and a function that is executed when the task is invoked:
var gulp = require('gulp'); gulp.task('hello', function() { console.log('Hello world!'); });
The following simple Gulp task will print Hello world! on the console:
$ gulp hello [22:43:15] Using gulpfile ~/path/to/project/gulpfile.js [22:43:15] Starting 'hello'... Hello world! [22:43:15] Finished 'hello' after 118 μs
Note how we invoke Gulp, gulp hello
, the argument used in the command is the name of the task to be executed. This is the simplest Gulp task that you...