Gulp frontend dev tasks pack

Prepare

Install

Skip this step if you already did it before.

1. Clone this repo to a directory outside project root: git clone git@github.com:denisborovikov/gulp-frontend-dev.git.
2. Go to the cloned directory: cd gulp-frontend-dev.
3. Install dependencies: npm install.
4. Install Gulp if not installed: npm install -g gulp.

Link

1. Go to the project root directory.
2. Make symlink to gulp-frontend-dev/node_modules directory: ln -s /your_path_to/gulp-frontend-dev/node_modules .
3. Make symlink to gulp-frontend-dev/gulp directory: ln -s /your_path_to/gulp-frontend-dev/gulp .
4. If you start a new project, copy gulp-config.js, gulpfile.js and package.json files from the repo (see install section) to the project root directory. If it's existing project, this files should be in place.

Config

1. Copy gulp/utils/gulp-config-local-example.js to the project root directory and rename it to gulp-config-local.js. Make all of your local specific changes in this file.
2. If you start a new project, add node_modules, gulp, and gulp-config-local.js to .gitignore.

Update

Make this step cccasionally to make sure that your npm dependencies and gulp tasks are up-to-date.

Make this step if you get an error running gulp tasks.

1. Go to the gulp-frontend-dev directory.
2. Update the repo: git pull.
3. If gulpfile.js was changed, copy and replace it in your project(s) root directory(s).
4. If package.json was changed, copy and replace it in your project(s) root directory(s).
5. If gulp-config.js was changed, merge it with the same file in your project(s) root directory(s).
6. 4. If gulp-config-local-example.js was changed, copy it to your project(s) root directory(s), rename to gulp-config-local.js and merge with the same file.
7. Update npm dependencies: npm install.

Gulp task

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Compile scss

gulp

Optimize images

gulp images

Generate png-sprites

gulp sprites

Generate SVG-sprites

gulp svg

Lint scss

gulp lint

All tasks at once (optimize images, generate svg and png-sprites, compile css)

gulp all

Build html (aka static site generator)

gulp html

Watch for changes

gulp watch