To be honest, I am fairly new to JS automations. A year ago, I used to imagine that Gulp JS is all about automating complicated tasks - until I realized that it is way more than that. Gulp can automate most tasks, and you can define tasks as anything between:
- Take a file, do this to that, then do this to that resulting file, and save it somewhere.
- When I do this, do that.
- Its not just about compiling or minifying CSS assets. You can even have Gulp cut out hundreds of PDF files for you (that's how I discovered it)!
- Logging!
No joke. Here are a few cool Gulp Plugins:
- gulp-clean - A gulp plugin for removing files and folders from given paths.
- gulp-concat - Streaming concat middleware
- gulp-uglify - Minify files with UglifyJS
- gulp-rename - Do you want to keep both, minified and source files around?
You can learn more about how to begin with Gulp here (bangla) and here (english).