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Getting Started with Gulp ??? Second Edition - Second Edition

By : Travis Maynard
Book Image

Getting Started with Gulp ??? Second Edition - Second Edition

By: Travis Maynard

Overview of this book

This book is a hands-on guide to get you up to speed with gulp. You will quickly learn how to install, configure, and run your own build system. It will instill you with the ability to automate several common development tasks to vastly improve your development workflow. This book first demonstrates various Gulp use cases before running through the steps of configuring, running, and customizing Gulp, providing you with core concepts of gulp, node.js, and npm. Diving a bit deeper into the gulp ecosystem, we will discuss when and why to use a node module instead of a gulp plugin. We will also go over a few issues that we can run into while using gulp and learn about ways to work around them to improve your gulp experience. By the end of this book, you will be able to create your very own gulp build from scratch, create and maintain tasks and project builds, and automate your workflow with plugins and custom tasks.
Table of Contents (7 chapters)
Free Chapter
1
Introducing Gulp
2
Getting Started
3
Understanding the Basics of Gulp
4
Performing Tasks with Gulp
5
Creating Advanced Tasks
6
Tips, Tricks, and Resolving Issues

Conventions

In this book, you will find a number of text styles that distinguish between different kinds of information. Here are some examples of these styles and an explanation of their meaning.

Code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles are shown as follows: "Flags are optional and are preceded by a double dash like so: --flag."

A block of code is set as follows:

    var gulp = require('gulp');
var concat = require('gulp-concat');
var myth = require('gulp-myth');

Any command-line input or output is written as follows:

travs-macbook:~ travis$

New terms and important words are shown in bold.

Warnings or important notes appear in a box like this.
Tips and tricks appear like this.