What's this course about?
In this course you will learn how to automate routine and tedious tasks with Gulp 4. The code editor for the course is Visual Studio Code (although you can use any code editor). The course is aimed at the beginners or people new to Gulp and will teach you how to set up a good configuration file for the frontend development.
More details please!
If you have never heard of Gulp before, it is a special toolkit that allows you to automate routine tasks in web development. In this course I will show you how to set up Gulp 4, use different Gulp plugins, write tasks and track the file changes. At the end of the course you will have a fully functional gulp configuration file, which can be used in your own projects.
We will start from the very basics. I will show you how to install all the needed dependencies and the Gulp itself. Then we will explore how to write tasks and watch for file changes. Almost every lesson we will improve our gulp configuration file and add a new feature to it. I will also provide to you the complete gulp configuration file with additional comments describing most used Gulp APIs, glob patterns and a guide on setting up a task, so that you would have a good hint while creating your own tasks with Gulp.
If you still do routine tasks by yourself, Gulp will probably change it. Let’s get started!
What should you know to take the course?
Javascript basics, HTML basics, CSS basics
What's inside?
Installation of Gulp dependencies
Installation of Gulp
Basic Gulp tasks
Project structure
SASS preprocessing
LESS preprocessing
Watch for file changes
Styles source maps (SASS/LESS)
CSS minification
Javascript minification
HTML minification
javascript concatenation
File renaming
Images optimizations
Images caching
HTML templating language (Kit)
CSS Autoprefixer
Javascript Babel transpiling
Project archiving
Complete Gulp configuration file with comments that you can use in your own projects
Who is teaching you?
My name is Sergey Shtyrlov. I'm a frontend developer. I've been working in this sphere for almost 7 years and continue doing it today. Gulp is essential for web development and you will sure benefit from it!
