The streaming build system

[![NPM version][npm-image]][npm-url] [![Downloads][downloads-image]][npm-url] [![Build Status][travis-image]][travis-url] [![Coveralls Status][coveralls-image]][coveralls-url] [![Gitter chat][gitter-image]][gitter-url] ## What is gulp? - **Automation** - gulp is a toolkit that helps you automate painful or time-consuming tasks in your development workflow. - **Platform-agnostic** - Integrations are built into all major IDEs and people are using gulp with PHP, .NET, Node.js, Java, and other platforms. - **Strong Ecosystem** - Use npm modules to do anything you want + over 2000 curated plugins for streaming file transformations - **Simple** - By providing only a minimal API surface, gulp is easy to learn and simple to use ## Documentation For a Getting started guide, API docs, recipes, making a plugin, etc. check out or docs! - Need something reliable? Check out the [documentation for the current release](/docs/README.md)! - Want to help us test the latest and greatest? Check out the [documentation for the next release](https://github.com/gulpjs/gulp/tree/4.0)! ## Sample `gulpfile.js` This file will give you a taste of what gulp does. ```js var gulp = require('gulp'); var coffee = require('gulp-coffee'); var concat = require('gulp-concat'); var uglify = require('gulp-uglify'); var imagemin = require('gulp-imagemin'); var sourcemaps = require('gulp-sourcemaps'); var del = require('del'); var paths = { scripts: ['client/js/**/*.coffee', '!client/external/**/*.coffee'], images: 'client/img/**/*' }; // Not all tasks need to use streams // A gulpfile is just another node program and you can use any package available on npm gulp.task('clean', function() { // You can use multiple globbing patterns as you would with `gulp.src` return del(['build']); }); gulp.task('scripts', ['clean'], function() { // Minify and copy all JavaScript (except vendor scripts) // with sourcemaps all the way down return gulp.src(paths.scripts) .pipe(sourcemaps.init()) .pipe(coffee()) .pipe(uglify()) .pipe(concat('all.min.js')) .pipe(sourcemaps.write()) .pipe(gulp.dest('build/js')); }); // Copy all static images gulp.task('images', ['clean'], function() { return gulp.src(paths.images) // Pass in options to the task .pipe(imagemin({optimizationLevel: 5})) .pipe(gulp.dest('build/img')); }); // Rerun the task when a file changes gulp.task('watch', function() { gulp.watch(paths.scripts, ['scripts']); gulp.watch(paths.images, ['images']); }); // The default task (called when you run `gulp` from cli) gulp.task('default', ['watch', 'scripts', 'images']); ``` ## Incremental Builds We recommend these plugins: - [gulp-changed](https://github.com/sindresorhus/gulp-changed) - only pass through changed files - [gulp-cached](https://github.com/contra/gulp-cached) - in-memory file cache, not for operation on sets of files - [gulp-remember](https://github.com/ahaurw01/gulp-remember) - pairs nicely with gulp-cached - [gulp-newer](https://github.com/tschaub/gulp-newer) - pass through newer source files only, supports many:1 source:dest ## Want to contribute? Anyone can help make this project better - check out our [Contributing guide](/CONTRIBUTING.md)! [downloads-image]: https://img.shields.io/npm/dm/gulp.svg [npm-url]: https://www.npmjs.com/package/gulp [npm-image]: https://img.shields.io/npm/v/gulp.svg [travis-url]: https://travis-ci.org/gulpjs/gulp [travis-image]: https://img.shields.io/travis/gulpjs/gulp.svg [coveralls-url]: https://coveralls.io/r/gulpjs/gulp [coveralls-image]: https://img.shields.io/coveralls/gulpjs/gulp/master.svg [gitter-url]: https://gitter.im/gulpjs/gulp [gitter-image]: https://badges.gitter.im/gulpjs/gulp.png