A simple explanation about Gulp. Gulp is a build system that can automate tasks. This makes repetitive task easier as it can compile your SASS / LESS to CSS, minify Javascript, reloading your browser, all kinds of tasks.
Gulp is as said, a build system, It’s running on Node.js, and both the Gulp source and your Gulp file, where you configure Gulp, are written in JavaScript. Why this is so great? Well, as a developer you might already know Javascript by itself, so its easy to get started!
But, don’t stand rooting yet, Gulp doesn’t do that much on its own, its merely a wrapper with a lot of available plugins. (Or with this with searching gulpplugin
on npm.) A few examples show us that there are multiple plugins, some to run Hint/Lint algoritme’s, update version numbers, compile your SASS to CSS, and even minifiy images (say what? :o) and more and more and more.
See, now you can root!
Last but not least, its open source! find it on GitHub!
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