Getting Started with Gulp

Very clear and useful introduction to Gulp. Gulp is a task runner used to assist in coding by automating development-related tasks like the compiling of javascript or css-files into a single file for production. The book is a step-by-step introduction to coding the key tasks related to web development. It does not intend to be an in-depth presentation of advanced topics and it isn't. The book covers the coding of a gulp task file that has all the key tasks you usually need. So you end up with a good gulp tasks file for your basic needs that you can further develop if need be. In my view, this book is largely sufficient for the needs of most developers and advice on more advanced features and modules can be found on the internet. You could certainly also find all of the advice that is in the book on the internet, but having the key concepts presented in a book that is well structured is in my opinion well worth the low price that the book comes at.

This book was well written and an easy read. It covered everything I needed to get my gulp build started and finished by the time I finished the book.

It's a great start point for those who are new to Gulp, well organized, with very practical examples. It tells you how to `use` Gulp, but not `develop` with Gulp, didn't dive deep though, if you're going to build some plugins with Gulp, this is not the book for you.

Written in plain language, the book is elementary to understand Gulp. It's pithy and quick-read chapters helped me to finish it in a couple of days.The book provides some basic details on Node.js. Minifying styles, scripts and images and a task for watch are very well explained. A note on troubleshooting was very helpful indeed.Though being the only book on Gulp, at the time of my reading, this book doesn't go into many other concepts that are required for automation tools like Gulp. In future, I would expect for the book to have chapters on running unit tests using Jasmine and QUnit. Code-coverage is becoming a mandatory metric in many organizations as well.The book can claim to be an exhaustive work on Gulp if it finally includes steps on how to write custom Gulp plugins.

It's a brief intro which goes into too many basics if you already know how to use the command line and/or grunt. The code is also already out of date even for the most basic functions. I had to look up the docs to see the changes (for example, there's no more "parallel" method, you just pass multiple items in an array).There are some good tips and tricks though and you will get a good basic understanding of how it works and how to use it in a practical fashion. Worth a read if you can get it at a decent price.

Gulp seems to pretty poorly documented in the systematic sense. There are hundreds of blog posts covering basic things, but little explanation of how it all fits together. Which is where I hoped this book would come in.This book partially succeeds as it does explain some of the fundamental concepts, but for the most part it is just a gentle and clear introduction to Gulp. It is well written and up to date (at start of 2015) but only a small part is devoted to explaining Gulp; rather than giving examples.Ideal for a front end developer who is fairly new to Node etc.