Gulp 4: Automate your development workflow

🎓 Master Frontend Development with Gulp 4: Automate Your Workflow!

What's this course about? Gulp 4 is a robust solution for automating your development tasks, and this course is your ticket to mastering it. Designed for beginners or those new to Gulp, this course will guide you through setting up a powerful configuration file tailored for frontend development using Visual Studio Code (or any other code editor of your choice). By the end, you'll have a fully functional gulp setup that can be applied to your own projects.

More details please! If you're not yet familiar with Gulp, it's an essential toolkit for streamlining and automating repetitive tasks in web development, from watching file changes to running complex tasks automatically. In this course, I'll walk you through the installation of Gulp 4 and its plugins, teaching you how to:

• Set up a project structure that's conducive to a smooth workflow.
• Write tasks for compiling SASS/LESS, minifying CSS/JS, optimizing images, and much more.
• Implement features like HTML templating with Kit, stylesource maps, and JavaScript Babel transpiling.

Each lesson will enhance your gulp configuration file, culminating in a comprehensive setup that you can take forward into your own projects. Plus, I'll provide the complete gulp configuration file with detailed comments for clarity and understanding.

What should you know to take the course? To get the most out of this course, you should have a basic understanding of:

• JavaScript
• HTML
• CSS

Even if you're not an expert in these areas, don't worry! This course will help you build your skills alongside mastering Gulp.

What's inside? This comprehensive course covers a wide range of topics to give you a complete understanding of how to use Gulp 4 for your development needs:

• 🔧 Installation of Gulp dependencies and Gulp itself
• 🚀 Basic Gulp tasks to get you started
• 📁 Project structure and organization
• ⚙️ SASS/LESS preprocessing for efficient styling
• 🛈 Watch for file changes to keep your project updated in real-time
• 🕵️‍♂️ Stylesource maps for debugging CSS
• ✂️ CSS and JS minification for optimized performance
• 📄 HTML minification and concatenation for streamlined code
• 🖼️ Image optimizations, including caching strategies
• 🛠️ File renaming and restructuring capabilities
• ✨ Templating with Kit for dynamic HTML generation
• 🚀 Autoprefixer for cross-browser compatibility in CSS
• 🧙‍♂️ JavaScript Babel transpiling for modern code across devices
• ➡️ Project archiving for version control and backup
• 📚 A complete gulp configuration file with comments for easy reference and implementation

Who is teaching you? My name is Sergey Shtyrlov, and I'm a frontend developer with almost 7 years of experience in the field. I've encountered the highs and lows of web development, and Gulp has been a game-changer for me. Now, I'm excited to share my expertise with you! By the end of this course, not only will you have a powerful set of skills under your belt, but you'll also understand how to apply them effectively in your projects. Let's embark on this journey to elevate your development workflow with Gulp 4! 🚀💻