{"product_id":"9781787285941","title":"Getting Started with Gulp - Second Edition","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCreate powerful automations with Gulp to improve the efficiency of your web project workflow\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout This Book\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGain a solid understanding of Gulp and write your own custom tasks from scratch\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDiscover ways to add additional functionality to improve your tasks\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGet up-and-running with new features added to the latest version of Gulp\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cb\u003eWho This Book Is For\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book is targeted at developers who are new to build systems and task runners but who have had prior experience with web development; a basic knowledge of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript is assumed. It guides the reader through the process of using Gulp to automate several common development tasks so that they can save time and focus on what is most important: writing great code.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhat You Will Learn\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHow to use a command-line interface.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLearn about Gulp, Node.js, and npm and how they work together.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCreate a Gulpfile from scratch and implement it into a project.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWrite basic tasks that will concatenate, minify, compress, and pre-process your files.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWrite advanced tasks that will run a local server, sync file changes to your browser, and allow you to write client-side JavaScript using ES2015.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn Detail\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book is a hands-on guide to get you up to speed with gulp. You will quickly learn how to install, configure, and run your own build system. It will instill you with the ability to automate several common development tasks to vastly improve your development workflow. This book first demonstrates various Gulp use cases before running through the steps of configuring, running, and customizing Gulp, providing you with core concepts of gulp, node.js, and npm. Diving a bit deeper into the gulp ecosystem, we will discuss when and why to use a node module instead of a gulp plugin. We will also go over a few issues that we can run into while using gulp and learn about ways to work around them to improve your gulp experience.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy the end of this book, you will be able to create your very own gulp build from scratch, create and maintain tasks and project builds, and automate your workflow with plugins and custom tasks.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eStyle and approach\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA step-by-step guide to help you get started with the latest features\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Packt Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47114699571440,"sku":"9781787285941","price":23.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781787285941_p0.jpg?v=1763738173","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781787285941","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}