Gulp.js
Automate and enhance your workflow
- Free • Open Source
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- Node.JS
What is Gulp.js?
Automate and enhance your workflow A streaming build system
gulp's use of streams and code-over-configuration makes for a simpler and more intuitive build.
Easy to use
By preferring code over configuration, gulp keeps simple things simple and makes complex tasks manageable.
Efficient
By harnessing the power of node's streams you get fast builds that don't write intermediary files to disk.
High Quality
gulp's strict plugin guidelines assure plugins stay simple and work the way you expect.
Easy to Learn
With a minimal API surface, you can pick up gulp in no time. Your build works just like you envision it: a series of streaming pipes.
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- Developed byFractal
- LicensingOpen Source (MIT) and Free product.
- Written in
- Alternatives12 alternatives listed
Supported Languages
- English
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- 4,375 Forks
- 27 Open Issues
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Tags
- Web Development
- preprocessor-software
- Javascript
- Javascript Libraries
- postprocessor
- Developer Tools
- Javascript Development
For me, Gulp is much better than Grunt. Simple watch + less + aftoprefixer + minify task on 3-4 files ran about 2.2 seconds on grunt, and almost instantly on gulp (when file is changed and recompiled on-fly) Major problem of grunt is every time it spawns new process and reloads entire config. Yes, you can optimize gruntfile, but it's still much worse than keep it in memory like gulp does. And you can set not to spawn grunt process for certain task, but it will stop entire watch task on errors. There are no gulp-plumber alterative for grunt (tell me if i'm wrong). When you rebuild entire project, it's not big issue, but if you watch for certain files and livereload - big latency between file changes and completion of rebuilding single file is problem. Also, gulp uses pipes, so each file processing can be done in memory, only final result written on disk. This gives additional performance, 'cause disk operations are slow.