In the past trimester, I was given a project of creating anything with MEAN.JS and it was the first time I used gulp, so I decided it was time to learn more about what gulp is and how does it work; with the help with a friend I understood how it worked. So now, let’s get started with gulp basics:
What is Gulp?
Gulp is a task runner and build system that uses the philosophy of code over configuration (I’m looking at you, Grunt!). At first glance, I had no idea what was happening in that gulpfile.js, but then I started reading and noticed very interesting things, like it’s simplicity for starters. You will mainly use four functions: