Dan Buda's Gulp Framework

A simple Gulp framework with a development server and production script for front-end projects using HTML, CSS and Vanilla JavaScript.

Features

• Browser "reset" using normalize.css
• Production build with minified HTML, CSS, JavaScript (using Babel 8) and images
• Automatically add browser prefixes with postcss and autoprefixer (default set to last 2 versions)
• Local development server with hot reloading using browser-sync

How to Use

• Git clone or fork the repository
• npm install or npm i to install dependencies
• gulp serve to launch development server with hot reloading at localhost:8080
• gulp build to run the production task
• Do all of your work in the src directory and build production files to the dist directory

Version Information

4.1.8

• Minor dependency updates

4.1.7

• Minor dependency updates

4.1.6

• Minor dependency updates

4.1.4

• Minor dependency updates

4.1.3

• Minor dependency updates

4.1.2

• Minor dependency updates

4.1.1

• Minor dependency updates

4.1.0

• Add support for CSS Nesting
• Replace purifycss with purgecss
• Remove unnecessary normalize task from gulpfile.js

4.0.1

• Minor dependency updates
• Comment clean up

4.0.0

• Changed all packages used in gulpfile.js from require() to ESM import syntax
• Cleaned up gulpfile.js comments and reordered code
• Removed separate postcss.config.js file and add that information to gulpfile.js
• Removed Sass in favor of pure CSS
• Updated all npm packages to latest versions
• Removed Google Analytics template language in index.html

3.0.0

• Updated all dependencies to most current versions as of June 5, 2023
• Replaced deprecated packages and babel-eslint

2.1.0

• Added configurations for ESLint, Stylelint, Prettier
• Several semver breaking updates to dependencies
• Minor tweaks to gulpfile.js due to linting

2.0.0

• gulp v4.0.1
• normalize.css v8.0.1
• browser-sync v2.26.5 for development server with hot reloading
• HTML minification with gulp-htmlmin v5.0.1
• CSS minification and prefixing with autoprefixer v9.5.1 & gulp-postcss v8.0.0
• Removal of dead/unused CSS with gulp-purifycss v0.2.0
• JavaScript minification with Babel 7 (@babel/core v7.4.3, gulp-babel v7.4.3) & gulp-uglify v3.0.2
• Image minification with gulp-imagemin v5.0.3
• Remove comments in production files with gulp-strip-comments v2.5.2

1.0.0

Link to the last version using Gulp v3 can be found here.

• gulp v3.9.1
• normalize.css v8.0.0
• Compile .scss to CSS with gulp-sass v4.0.1, add browser prefixes with gulp-postcss v7.0.5 and autoprefixer v9.1.5 plugin, and minify with gulp-clean-css v3.10.0
• Compile JavaScript with Babel 7 (gulp-babel v8.0.0, @babel/core v7.1.2, @babel/preset-env v7.1.0) and minifiy with gulp-uglify v3.0.1
• Minified images with gulp-imagemin v4.1.0
• browser-sync v2.26.0 for local server and hot reloading of changed files; bypass unchanged files with gulp-changed v3.2.0