Every so ofter I like to look at my build process and see where I can make improvements or changes that are necessary because the code has changed.
For this iteration the changes are:
- Finally switched to the current recommended method of defining tasks.
- There are things that don't work with the current system(although the Gulp maintainers say they should) so I will bite the bullet and change it.
- Moved from the almost unsupported Imagemin plugin go gulp-libsquoosh
- It has the advantages that supported formats are implemented as WASM libraries so they'll work everywhere
- The codecs are also bundled with libsquoosh so there's no need to install additional plugins to make it work
- Moved to markdown-it as the Markdown parser
- Adding plugins still doesn't work, not sure why. Still researching the issue
- The syntax for gulp-exec changed so I moved the PDF generation code to the new syntax
- Another major and unexpected change is that node-sass is deprecated in favor of gulp-sass and the current dart-sass version
- As a result the
sasstask has been modified to run with the new gulp-sass in synchronous mode - dart-sass is now the normative SASS version and the first one that will receive new features, updates and fixes
- As a result the
- Prince XML to generate PDFs from HTML
- Because it's a commericla product I cannot share it. You can download it for evaluation purposes from the website
- libsquoosh is used internally by gulp-libssquoosh to optimize images
- markdown-it is used to parse Markdown files