#Gulp minify install#

First, we’re loading the gulp and gulp-uglify modules: var gulp = require('gulp'), We’re doing a few things in our gulpfile.js file. Assuming that you have a file named app.js in the js directory, a new app.js will be created in the build directory containing the minified contents of js/app.js.

#Gulp minify install#

Install gulp-uglify through npm by running npm install –save-dev gulp-uglify, and then run the task by running gulp minify. Put the following in your gulpfile.js file: var gulp = require('gulp'), This is where you will define your Gulp tasks, which will be run using the gulp command. Let’s create a task to minify one of our JavaScript files. Then, install it in your project: npm install -save-dev gulp There are 569 other projects in the npm registry using gulp-minify-css. Start using gulp-minify-css in your project by running npm i gulp-minify-css. First, install the package globally: npm install -g gulp Latest version: 1.2.4, last published: 6 years ago. Gulp is open source and can be found on GitHub. gitignore This file contains bidirectional Unicode text that may be interpreted or compiled differently than what appears below. I’ve compiled a longer list of build tools written in JavaScript. Other build tools are available, such as Grunt and, more recently, Broccoli, but I believe Gulp to be superior (see the “Why Gulp?” section below). For example, there are plugins to run JSHint, compile your CoffeeScript, run Mocha tests and even update your version number. The system by itself doesn’t really do much, but a huge number of plugins are available, which you can see on the plugins page or by searching gulpplugin on npm. This makes it perfect if you’re a front-end developer: You can write tasks to lint your JavaScript and CSS, parse your templates, and compile your LESS when the file has changed (and these are just a few examples), and in a language that you’re probably already familiar with. It’s built on Node.js, and both the Gulp source and your Gulp file, where you define tasks, are written in JavaScript (or something like CoffeeScript, if you so choose). Gulp.js is a build system, meaning that you can use it to automate common tasks in the development of a website.