Optimizing your website assets and testing your design across different browsers is certainly not the most fun part of the design process. Luckily, it consists of repetitive tasks that can be automated with the right tools to improve your efficiency. Gulp is a build system that can improve how you develop websites by automating common tasks, such as compiling preprocessed CSS, minifying JavaScript and reloading the browser. In this article, we’ll see how you can use Gulp to change your development workflow , making it faster and more efficient. What Is Gulp? Gulp is a build system, meaning that you can use it to automate common tasks in the development of a website. 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). 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
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