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Welcome to the Code-gulp wiki!

We shall use gulp and learn about it..

The art of gulp

• What is gulp?
• What's a build process?
• gulp vs grunt
• Who uses gulp?
• Tasks & Task Runners
• Getting started with gulp
• Creating gulp tasks
• gulp's API
• gulp - An Orchestrator wrapper
• Task Creation - Using gulp.task
• Running gulp tasks
• Useful gulp CLI switches
• Task Compositions, dependencies, execution order
• Example 1 - Holy Gaucamoly
• The importance of having clean code
• Example 2 - A sample build process
• gulp api - src, dest
• What is a glob?
• Using src, dest to read & write files
• Streams, Piping
• Streams in Node
• Node stream wrappers - through, through2
• We Are Fractal's vinyl, vinyl-fs
• gulp plugins
• Using gulp plugins
• Single responsible tasks use one plugin
• Creating a library of common reusable tasks for our projects
  • jsHint
  • Mocha
• The watch api
• Writing a gulp plugin
• gulp CLI - Internals

References

• gulp docs
• gulp - Vision, History, Future
• Why was gulp built?
• Node Streams
• The Stream Handbook

Resources

• Gulp Plugins
• Recipes - Common things you might want to do
• gulp cheatsheet - with examples
• Get started with gulp - videos

Good Reads

• http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2014/06/building-with-gulp/
• http://ponyfoo.com/articles/my-first-gulp-adventure