gulp
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Control Add-ins Supercharged: Development and production build tasks
I’ve been absent for a while – sometimes it’s difficult to find time for blogging even when I want it. Anyway… here’s the last post in the introductory series…
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Control Add-ins Supercharged: Babel
After a short absence, I am back. The next lesson in the Control Add-ins Supercharged series I am introducing Babel. “Babel is a JavaScript compiler”, says…
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Control Add-ins Supercharged: Debugging with source maps
So far I’ve shown how to configure gulp to help you with some basic JavaScript development tasks, such as bundling and minifying, and how to automate builds on…
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Control Add-ins Supercharged: Automating gulp.watch
Yesterday you’ve seen how to use gulp to make it do something truly useful: bundling your JavaScript and CSS files. Introducing gulp for the purpose of…
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Control Add-ins Supercharged: Teaching gulp some useful tricks
My last demo introduces gulp, an amazingly simple task automation tool. You’ve seen what it is, how to set it up, and how to create a simple hello-world task.…
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Control Add-ins Supercharged: Hello, gulp!
Get ready for the next big step in taking the control add-in development to the next level. Today, I am (re)introducing gulp. I’ve blogged about gulp in the…
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Using gulp plugins to transform files
In the last post, I explained how to use tasks, but I didn’t explain yet how to make them useful. Tasks are most useful when they automate certain file…
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Writing gulp tasks
Now that you know how to get gulp up and running in VS Code, and how to export tasks from your gulp file, let’s talk about tasks themselves. What are they,…
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Exporting tasks from gulpfile.js
In my last post I covered the very basics of getting started with gulp in VS Code. It was all about getting gulp up and running under the hood of VS Code, and…
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Getting started with gulp and VS Code
Strange times. I never stop to be amazed with the kinds tools that invaded our pristine development environments. One of those tools is gulp, and if you…