Learning Gulp #1 - Installing & Introducing Gulp

Get started with Gulp! Here we cover the basics of what Gulp can do for you and how you can get started using Gulp right now!

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[vankay]

Heyy scot i'm a newbie to gulp and your tutorials are awesome. They are very easy to understand and the way you increase the complexity step by step really helps me understand better. LevelUp Tuts

[ChrisNoLai]

Love your PC, I got the same exact case and cooler! Thanks for all these tutorials!

[mayankvora]

Its awesome tutorial. Your presentation is really good and I am enjoying learning gulp with this series.
Thanks for sharing this.

[zebcode]

I've been following your tutorials. Really great stuff. You explain it really well. Thank you so much for this :)

[Akhil]

AngularJS page refresh issue got me into the world of Gulp...without gulp I wasn't able to resolve the issue...had to create a gulp task that would execute the historyapicallback along with browser-sync to resolve the issue. thanks gulp...will learn more of it...

[benjaminpelc]

Really enjoying these series, thank you.

[snowbeast]

As always, great video! You are an amazing help to the community and deserve credit.

These task runners are popping out like mushrooms. I guess people noticed a few flaws in Grunt (mainly slowness and excessive configuration needed for simple tasks). Gulp is definitely an improvement in those areas, and I might switch to Gulp for simpler tasks.

A newer kid on block is Broccoli, but it doesn't have many plugins yet.

[miguelperezpal]

Thanks for sharing, really comprehensive explanations.

[SudeshGama]

this video helped me to install gulp on my local windows machine. Thanks a lot. cheers.

[RianWardana]

I think we have to do 'npm init' first to create a package.json file so -'-save-dev' could work..

[AmishStylee]

Is a "package.json" file required in the root of your project folder to get gulp up and working? I had no success with the steps outlined in this video until creating one.

[markjaramilloGTA]

Nice structure seems like you cover all the very basics, Alot of Videos leave huge gaps.

[stephandevries]

Scott do you have any tips on how to structure your folders with smaller scale projects? I'm currently using gulp, bower and compass. My top level directory has a node_modules, bower_components and sass directory and it is starting to look a little bit messy.

[adfinemtotheend]

Thanks for another awesome tutorial. I am unable to find the "node_modules" folder when i install it locally. Can you please help?

[justinoneill]

Awesome tutorial! Is it possible to change the weird looking "114 us" thing into the correct "114 ms"? (for milliseconds)

[trippruitt]

I've watched the LevelUpTuts tutorial series for Gulp.js and Sketch and they are both great! I really like Scott's color scheme for Sublime. What is it called?

[k.a.u.d.e.r.v.a.e.l.s.k]

don't run regular npm commands with elevated privileges. You need sudo on -g global commands because it actually install software on your device. Regular npm commands basically just downloads module files to your working directory. Running npm commands with sudo privileges can allow installed files heightened permissions to your device

[sunmustbedestroyed]

What generator did you use to scaffold?

[王勇-pu]

thanks, I'm learning gulp and use it in our project;

[RefusicStudio]

Dude! How did you get into 'root folder/directiory' at 3:13? I tired typing cd and moving folder to terminal but after typing `sudo npm install --save-dev gulp` I'm not getting any folder, tried twice but didn't work :( Help!