When I sat down to write about gulp, I had absolutely no idea how big it would be. Here we are, almost a year later, and the project has grown into one of the most popular libraries in JavaScript. It's been crazy to hear from our users how it has been benefiting them on a day-to-day basis: it improves developer workflow, saves a massive amount of time, and automates tedious tasks to restore sanity. I'm proud that the project has also introduced a new way of modeling data transformations (Streams!) to a new group of people and changed the way we think about build systems. Travis Maynard is one of our earliest adopters. When gulp had only 30 stars and nobody really cared about it, Travis was there writing amazing articles to guide people into a state of build system bliss. I can think of no better person to write this book. Go forth and build!
Eric Schoffstall
Creator of Gulp