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Gulp Introduction - PHP Tutorial Points

Let's see Gulp Introduction. Gulp is a “JavaScript task runner"  like its main competitor Grunt, it’s a development tool.

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Read about GulpJS lacking sponsors and dang, this is so sad.IMO Gulp is still miles ahead of Webpack when you want to set up simple asset compilation (PostCSS + using Webpack purely as JS bundler).

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Snazzie: On building a scaffold and NPM packages.

For awhile now, I’ve been working with and using a client side site tool that I built, and I love it.  I call it Snazzie (as in “Hey, that’s a Snazzie looking site!”)and it has saved me countless headaches in just a few short months.

I’ve also wanted to take my project one step further by open sourcing it extensively, but I knew that if this was really going to be a successful project I had to make it easy to install and setup.  The original Snazzie wasn’t difficult to get set up with, but it wasn’t a walk in the park either.  So I challenged myself to revisit building NPM packages and get familiar with scaffolding tools.  This has been an incredibly rewarding experience, let me tell you!

Embarking on this project, I wanted to build something that had a similar feeling to  the Facebook React Boilerplate setup but for vanilla HTML/CSS/JS sites (like Github Pages).  Like the React Boilerplate, I wanted the Snazzie Generator to initialize projects quickly and involve minimal configuration out of the box but allowed the user to customize their projects as they wished.

Although I the original Snazzie was working fine with some user configuration, it was a far cry from what the React Boilerplate did.  This comes from the history of Snazzie itself, as I was (admittedly) hazy on what NPM “was” and what tools were out there to help me.  Let me explain.

Quite awhile back, I had tried building an NPM package in hopes that I would be able to build the Snazzie Generator, but I was really confused as to what I’d need to do to build a scaffold from the command line.  Would I have to write exported functions that build directories?  What about subdirectories in those directories?  How would I make the basic files with all the gulp functions I’d need?  (Yes, I really thought I’d have to write all of that.)  It was all so much to consider that I got overwhelmed  and then I abandoned Snazzie for well over a year.  

Although my confusion and project abandonment wasn’t the high point of this for me, I’m glad that all that time ago I had taken the time to learn the basic concepts of publishing packages with NPM, as a year and change later I was now able to understand concepts that I was previously struggling with and it was WAY easier the second time around (more on this in a second).

Like I was saying before with the React Boilerplate, I knew that there had to be other people who had solved this “lets make a scaffold” problem and I could probably use their tools for my project. I did some googling around and stumbled upon Slush, which was the EXACT tool that I was looking for.  For those not familiar with it, Slush is a scaffolding system (described as an alternative to Yeoman) that relies on tasks similarly to how one would use Gulp in any of their other projects.

In my opinion, a slushfile is a fancier version of a gulpfile- which makes this tool really easy to pick up if you’re a Gulp enthusiast.  After installing Slush globally, making a new repository for my project, reading a bit on how to use Slush and trying a few things out, I realized that I could add all the files that I needed into the templates directory in my new Slushy project and have a bona-fide scaffolding generator that could be reused over and over.  Victory was mine!

Next, I was presented the problem of how to make this tool easy for other people to use- which is where my previous struggle with grasping the concept of what NPM “was” (as it was preparing me for what I was going to be doing today).

I started by taking a deep breath, going back to the NPM documentation, and reviewing what a NPM module was and how to publish packages.  First things first.

This is where the dawn slowly came to my apartment.  Although I had a high level overview of NPM packages, I had missed a key concept that the NPM documentation had pointed out- that anything could be published as an NPM package as long as it had a pacakge.json file.  Read that again.  Anything could be published as an NPM package as long as it had a pacakge.json file.  

My repository publishing world was turned upside down.  A great majority of my GitHub repositories had package.json files..  and thus they could ALL be published as NPM packages.  All of them.  Like tens of them.  All of those github repositories were just “unpublished packages”.  My confusion as to what NPM “was” now eliminated.

You see, when I had originally tried building Snazzie, I couldn’t wrap around my head what one of my friends had told me about NPM.  NPM is just another way of publishing open source projects (but for node.js).  Read that again slowly and let it sink in.  Not so mind bending, eh?  

In my mind NPM had a totally different feeling and thus use compared to GitHub.  To me, NPM packages were focused, small, and usually used in conjunction with larger projects while GitHub seemed like the mamajama of anything built on the internet.  What I had discovered while building the Snazzie Generator is that Github is more like reading the newspaper where you get a little bit of everything, while NPM is more like reading a magazine on your favorite topic.  The subject you’re reading about may be covered in both the newspaper and the magazine, but the magazine wouldn’t have such a broad spectrum of topics in it.  This is the key concept of NPM- its a focused open source platform.

Overall, building the Snazzie Generator has been a wonderful learning project for me for a few reasons.  First, I finally locked in the concept of the usefulness of NPM and I’m excited to use it more for things that I want to use in multiple projects.  Next, I did not reinvent the wheel.  Instead, I found tools that helped me build what I was once convinced that I’d have to start from scratch (and they were really easy to get the hang of).  Lastly, and most importantly, I got to build a tool that I and anyone else could use over and over.  All three are winners in my book.

I hope that you take a minute to check out the documentation site that I made to go with this as well as the Snazzie Generator GitHub Repo. I hope that you take a minute to try out Snazzie yourself and then let me know how much you love it!

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Implementation of Gulp.js from Scratch

Implementation of Gulp.js from Scratch

Are you tired of doing  the same things manually i.e., creating the folders, compiling and copying  the files deploying them on separate environments (i.e., dev or prod) manually.  A lot of mouse clicking,  lot of  copy-paste, a lot of configuration changes and of course loads of headache.

Then this blog is for you.

I hope after this blog your search ends for implementing gulp in your project and…

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I gots me a gulp.js powered Jekyll site workflow. <3 u gulp!! ^^

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(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTiHlpuoOd0)

Working with Gulp Watch to minify JS files    

   How to concatenate JS files using Gulp.js (using 'gulp-concat')

   How to minify (uglify) JS files using Gulp.js (using 'gulp-uglify')

   How to monitor JS file changes using Gulp Watch

   How to link Gulp Watch with a Gulp task.

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(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbRlB42vQP8)

The Video covers the following -What is Gulp -How is this compared to Grunt -How to install gulp client on your machine -How to install gulp for you application -How to download/install gulp plugins -How to create gulp file -How to code to work with gulp tasks -How to execute gulp file -Comparing gulp with grunt

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Gulp Introduction for Web Designers

new on admixweb: Gulp Introduction for Web Designers #js #webdesign #webdev #frontend

At every job, there is a constant no matter how difficult or easy the work may be: time is money. With that being said, developers and designers are always looking for ways to optimize tasks so they can concentrate on stuff that really matters. So, in order to optimize your workflow and how you design and develop websites, gulp can help you to avoid repeating yourself.

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