As a project dependency too

[jlgrall]

Just an idea I had. Instead of starting from your project, I would start by making a new project, then I would run npm install gulp-starter. This will install it in my node_modules. And now I could simply use the gulp task from your gulp-starter in node_modules in my gulpfile.js.

My gulpfile.js could look like this:

// Get the default config and tweak it with my own options
// This way, I only need to define a few options
var config = extendDeep(require('node_modules/gulp-starter/gulp/config'), {
  browserSync.port: 8081,
  images.dest: "img",
  globals: {
    debug: false,
  }
});

// Set up "default", "build" and "clean" tasks:
require('node_modules/gulp-starter/gulp/tasks/base');

// Now only load the tasks we need
require('node_modules/gulp-starter/gulp/tasks/watch');
require('node_modules/gulp-starter/gulp/tasks/jshint-early');
require('node_modules/gulp-starter/gulp/tasks/browserify');
require('node_modules/gulp-starter/gulp/tasks/jshint-full');
require('node_modules/gulp-starter/gulp/tasks/browserSync');
require('node_modules/gulp-starter/gulp/tasks/sass');
//require('node_modules/gulp-starter/gulp/tasks/images');  // <- Temporarily disabled

A few benefits:

• updates to gulp-starter can be applied easily by updating the module
• no need to update my own code
• I get all the best gulp tasks from the community
• I can simply enable or disable a task. Tasks define themselves their own dependencies

It could use something like this: https://github.com/3rd-Eden/canihaz or like that https://github.com/unfold/gulpfile-install or https://www.npmjs.com/package/install-requires to prevent having a lot of unused dependencies (nobody uses sass, less and stylus at the same time).

[greypants]

Interesting idea! Probably not something I'm going to undertake in the near future, but good to think about. Let me know if you end up putting something together. Another route some people have looked at is using Yeoman: https://github.com/yeoman/generator-gulp-webapp