heroic-gulp
A starting point for a streamlined, reusable gulp v4 setup. The goal is for this to be usable across web, Cordova, etc.
Getting Started
Make sure you have a recent version of gulp-cli installed. Install heroic gulp: 'npm i heroic-gulp --save-dev' Customize the gulp.config.js file that is added to your project. Run 'gulp buildAndServe watch' to spin up the sample web page, hosted by Browsersync with a watch on the app folder.
What?
A gulp setup that follows my typical project conventions, and that can perform just about everything I care about, sans a few nice-to-haves that I may add:
- SASS with autoprefix
- Babel/ES6 transpilation
- Concat-and-minify
- Browsersync
- Watch
- Cache busting
Why?
Because I feel like this should be a solved problem. And because I'm already using gulp on like a zillion projects. And because I haven't taken the time to learn Webpack yet. :D
How?
I envision the final version of this to go something like this:
- Create a new project (duh)
- npm i heroic-gulp --save-dev
- Customize gulp.config.js if needed (hopefully this would involve just adding additional script and scss refs)
- Do good things: gulp buildAndServe
I'm putting this out there to get feedback, and to see if there are ways I could do this better.
Things I Like
- Tasks are lean and self-contained. The SASS and JS tasks don't have to worry about whether or not Browsersync is running. Neither does watch.
- It should work well for the way I build both web and mobile (Cordova) apps. There are a few tasks that don't apply for mobile, but oh well.
- The config is mostly the same: you have a config object for each task, and things are consistent between them whenever possible.
Things I don't like
This is still a POC, and I'd like to make some further improvements:
- I don't like that it's 3 files. Maybe I shouldn't have made "gulpHero" as a utility. It does keep the tasks nice and clean though.
- I don't like that I have to actually ship a gulpfile.js. I'd like to somehow have a library of tasks that you could then import/export in your own gulpfile. I played around with this, but didn't like how it looked.