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Re: Gulp.js: The streaming build system

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Post by aymericbeaumet » Thu, Aug 21, 2014, 9:08 PM UTC

Recoil42 wrote: post #30

aymericbeaumet wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Even though they are clearly related, Gulp and Grunt are fulfilling different purposes. You should carefully examined your needs before choosing one over another. I recently switched to Gulp for several projects, and I'm thinking of switching back to Grunt. Gulp lacks of some important features. For instance, it does not allow to sequentially execute tasks: everything is done in parallel. This could for sure be emula…

"For instance, it does not allow to sequentially execute tasks: everything is done in parallel." This is false. You can set perquisites for a task, which will be executed in sequence.

I think you are talking about this[1], indeed you are right.

However, task dependencies allows sequential tasks execution, but that's not very handy as you may want a same task to be executed in two different sequences.

Let's see a simple example on which I honestly struggle to reproduce with Gulp:

  [Lint, Test] -> Concatenation -> Minification

  Watch -> [Lint, Test] -> LiveReload

How would you do such a setup without having a redundancy in your tasks declaration?

[1]: https://github.com/gulpjs/gulp/blob/master/docs/recipes/runn...

Re: Gulp.js: The streaming build system

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Post by aymericbeaumet » Thu, Aug 21, 2014, 9:14 PM UTC

vlunkr wrote: post #36

aymericbeaumet wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Even though they are clearly related, Gulp and Grunt are fulfilling different purposes. You should carefully examined your needs before choosing one over another. I recently switched to Gulp for several projects, and I'm thinking of switching back to Grunt. Gulp lacks of some important features. For instance, it does not allow to sequentially execute tasks: everything is done in parallel. This could for sure be emula…

There are ways, like others have said. There is also a callback system you can use to make things sequential, but last time I looked it wasn't well documented

There are always ways. But I find Grunt much more handy to do it.

Re: Gulp.js: The streaming build system

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Post by tieTYT » Thu, Aug 21, 2014, 10:03 PM UTC

bellerocky wrote: post #6

I recently switched to using gulp and webpack (to build react.js) after having used grunt for many years and I would encourage anyone still using grunt to make the switch. All that pain and suffering to get your grunt build to work will not be a problem. Setting up gulp is painless. It just worked. My setup is less, jshint, wepback with react.js and bootstrap. I encourage people to use webpack for any kind of js buil…

I use grunt.js and from my perspective gulp is nice syntactic sugar that solves the same problem. But, it's difficult for me to tell what webpack is for. Granted, I've only skimmed the documentation[1], but I feel like I haven't run into the problems that it's trying to solve. Is this meant for webapps that are hundreds of thousands of lines of code?

[1]: http://webpack.github.io/docs/what-is-webpack.html