2014 Review: Day 2

2014 Review: Day 2

As 2014 winds down, we’ll take an opportunity to look back at some of our most-read posts from this year, in case you missed them the first time.  Back in May, Noah Miller took a look at what you need to know about creating plug-ins for the gulp build system: A...
Error Handling in gulp

Error Handling in gulp

Consider three reference points on the spectrum of errors that might occur in a build system: The build system broke (we’ll call this “fatal”): the makefile has a bug, a file resource disappeared, a gremlin burrowed through the ram A critical build...
gulp Minus Plugin

gulp Minus Plugin

I covered the potential simplicity of gulp plugins in my previous post (refresher: gulp, the hot new JavaScript build system, enables writing an asynchronous, streaming plugin in just a couple dozen lines).  On the other hand, gulp’s philosophy leads to a pretty...
A Simple gulp Plugin

A Simple gulp Plugin

gulp is the new black. It’s quickly supplanting Grunt for JavaScript builds because it’s faster and simpler. When we replaced our Gruntfile with a gulpfile on one of our projects, our build script sped up by an order of magnitude and became much more...