Category: task runner

An Introduction to Gulp.js

Developers spend precious little time coding. Even if we ignore irritating meetings, much of the job involves basic tasks which can sap your working day:generating HTML from templates and content files compressing new and modified images compiling Sass to CSS code removing console and debugger statements from scripts...

Look, Ma! No NodeJS! – a PHP front end workflow without Node

If you’re intimidated, exhausted or irritated by Gulp, Grunt, NPM, Yeoman, and all the other NodeJS tools that aim to help but often do the opposite, a good asset management workflow is possible in PHP, and this tutorial aims to prove it. In this article, we’ll go through a NodeJS-free PHP front end asset managemen...