One thing that I quickly discovered whilst using Gulp to automate my development process, was the piping the results through from one plugin to another could often go wrong, and it was often hard to trap the reason and get proper error messaging out. Then I discovered some example code which pointed me to pump:…

Having already written my first gulp task, I was ready to get a bit more advanced. My first task was to concatenate javascript files, including putting my local version of jQuery in front of my own javascript, so there was a single file to download, with all the required plugins before. However, I’d already heard…

I recently started using a new development process, using Gulp to automate development tasks. I thought I’d start off easy, so I’d concatenate my existing javascript files into a single file. You might ask, why would you want to do this? And my answer would be, you want to reduce the number of items fetched…