The streaming build system
- Automation - gulp is a toolkit that helps you automate painful or time-consuming tasks in your development workflow.
- Platform-agnostic - Integrations are built into all major IDEs and people are using gulp with PHP, .NET, Node.js, Java, and other platforms.
- Strong Ecosystem - Use npm modules to do anything you want + over 3000 curated plugins for streaming file transformations.
- Simple - By providing only a minimal API surface, gulp is easy to learn and simple to use.
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This file will give you a taste of what gulp does.
vargulp=require('gulp');varless=require('gulp-less');varbabel=require('gulp-babel');varconcat=require('gulp-concat');varuglify=require('gulp-uglify');varrename=require('gulp-rename');varcleanCSS=require('gulp-clean-css');vardel=require('del');varpaths={styles: {src: 'src/styles/**/*.less',dest: 'assets/styles/'},scripts: {src: 'src/scripts/**/*.js',dest: 'assets/scripts/'}};/* Not all tasks need to use streams, a gulpfile is just another node program * and you can use all packages available on npm, but it must return either a * Promise, a Stream or take a callback and call it */functionclean(){// You can use multiple globbing patterns as you would with `gulp.src`,// for example if you are using del 2.0 or above, return its promisereturndel(['assets']);}/* * Define our tasks using plain functions */functionstyles(){returngulp.src(paths.styles.src).pipe(less()).pipe(cleanCSS())// pass in options to the stream.pipe(rename({basename: 'main',suffix: '.min'})).pipe(gulp.dest(paths.styles.dest));}functionscripts(){returngulp.src(paths.scripts.src,{sourcemaps: true}).pipe(babel()).pipe(uglify()).pipe(concat('main.min.js')).pipe(gulp.dest(paths.scripts.dest));}functionwatch(){gulp.watch(paths.scripts.src,scripts);gulp.watch(paths.styles.src,styles);}/* * Specify if tasks run in series or parallel using `gulp.series` and `gulp.parallel` */varbuild=gulp.series(clean,gulp.parallel(styles,scripts));/* * You can use CommonJS `exports` module notation to declare tasks */exports.clean=clean;exports.styles=styles;exports.scripts=scripts;exports.watch=watch;exports.build=build;/* * Define default task that can be called by just running `gulp` from cli */exports.default=build;Gulp provides a wrapper that will be loaded in your ESM code, so you can name your gulpfile as gulpfile.mjs or with "type": "module" specified in your package.json file.
And here's the same sample from above written in ESNext.
import{src,dest,watch}from'gulp';importlessfrom'gulp-less';importbabelfrom'gulp-babel';importconcatfrom'gulp-concat';importuglifyfrom'gulp-uglify';importrenamefrom'gulp-rename';importcleanCSSfrom'gulp-clean-css';importdelfrom'del';constpaths={styles: {src: 'src/styles/**/*.less',dest: 'assets/styles/'},scripts: {src: 'src/scripts/**/*.js',dest: 'assets/scripts/'}};/* * For small tasks you can export arrow functions */exportconstclean=()=>del(['assets']);/* * You can also declare named functions and export them as tasks */exportfunctionstyles(){returnsrc(paths.styles.src).pipe(less()).pipe(cleanCSS())// pass in options to the stream.pipe(rename({basename: 'main',suffix: '.min'})).pipe(dest(paths.styles.dest));}exportfunctionscripts(){returnsrc(paths.scripts.src,{sourcemaps: true}).pipe(babel()).pipe(uglify()).pipe(concat('main.min.js')).pipe(dest(paths.scripts.dest));}/* * You could even use `export as` to rename exported tasks */functionwatchFiles(){watch(paths.scripts.src,scripts);watch(paths.styles.src,styles);}export{watchFilesaswatch};constbuild=gulp.series(clean,gulp.parallel(styles,scripts));/* * Export a default task */exportdefaultbuild;You can filter out unchanged files between runs of a task using the gulp.src function's since option and gulp.lastRun:
constpaths={ ... images: {src: 'src/images/**/*.{jpg,jpeg,png}',dest: 'build/img/'}}functionimages(){returngulp.src(paths.images.src,{since: gulp.lastRun(images)}).pipe(imagemin()).pipe(gulp.dest(paths.images.dest));}functionwatch(){gulp.watch(paths.images.src,images);}Task run times are saved in memory and are lost when gulp exits. It will only save time during the watch task when running the images task for a second time.
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