Gulp Kickstarter

A simple kickstarter to front-end web development which uses Gulp v4.

This is my first time trying gulp so it won't be perfect. I just wanted to create a basic template to work off of with a file structure I liked.

Features

• Live reloading
• Cache busting
• SCSS converted to css, auto prefixed and minified with sourcemaps)
• Javascript concatenated into a single file, minified with sourcemaps and supports ES6)
• Image minifying

Getting Started

Follow these steps in order to get the website up and running locally on your machine.

Installation

• npm install to install any dependencies
• npm start or gulp watch to start a live reload session

Building

• npm run build or gulp to build the application

Extras

• gulp or gulp build to build the application
• gulp watch to enable live reload
• gulp clean to delete the build folder
• gulp styles to run the style tasks
• gulp scripts to run the script tasks
• gulp images to run the image tasks
• gulp favicon to run the favicon tasks

File Structure

├── app
│   ├── images
│   │
│   ├── js
│   │   ├── main.js
│   │   │
│   │   └── vendors
│   │
│   └── scss
│       ├── abstracts
│       │
│       ├── base
│       │
│       ├── pages
│       │
│       └── main.scss
│
└── build
    ├── images
    │
    ├── js
    │   ├── app.min.js
    │   │
    │   └── vendors.min.js
    │
    └── css
        └── styles.min.css

Tips

• You can use any file structure for your javascript and scss files. The one provided is an example.