Gulp-101

Question 1

What is a gulpfile ?

Answer 1

it is the doorway to execute the task from till serving.

Question 2

How can you execute the gulp file?

Answer 2

gulp [task-name]

Question 3

Which function defines the task?

Answer 3

gulp.task(“task-name”, function(){});

Question 4

How do you define task dependencies?

Answer 4

gulp.task(“task-name”, [“task1”], …)

Question 5

Does dependency order is predictable?

Answer 5

Nope, the dependency can execute on their own

Question 6

Can we have a task without impl function?

Answer 6

Yes just to group the order

Question 7

What is the relevance of streams?

Answer 7

Since gulp is used to transformt the state of the src and dest files. Streams are just do that using pipe function

Question 8

Show an e.g. of streams

Answer 8

gulp. task(“transform”, function(){
gulp. src(“src/”).pipe(gulp.dest(“/dest))

})

Question 9

What are gulp plugins?

Answer 9

For each complex work there a plugin that gulp makes use of with the help of pipe function
gulp.task(“task”, function(){
gulp.src(“/src”).pipe(uglify())).pipe(gulp.dest(“/dest”))
)