Awesome Gulp

A curated list of awesome gulp resources, plugins, and boilerplates for a better development workflow automation.

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Contents

• Legend
• Resources
  • General Resources
  • Official Documentation
  • Community
  • Tutorials
    • Gulp Tutorials
    • Gulp 4 Tutorials
    • Gulp with Browserify
    • Gulp with Angular
    • Gulp with Angular and Browserify
    • Gulp with Angular and Webpack
    • Gulp with React and Browserify
    • Gulp with Ember
  • Miscellaneous Resources
• Plugins
  • Compilation
  • Transpilation
  • Concatenation
  • Minification
  • Optimization
  • Injecting Assets
  • Templating
  • Linting
  • Live Reload
  • Caching
  • Flow Control
  • Logging
  • Testing
  • Miscellaneous Plugins
• Scaffolding
  • Boilerplates
  • Yeoman Generators
• Miscellaneous

Legend

[⛔️] - A deprecation notice;

Resources

General Resources

• Official Website
• Github Repository
• Plugin Registry
• NPM Module
• Blacklisted Plugins

Official Documentation

• Getting Started
• API Documentation
• CLI Documentation
• Writing a Plugin
• Recipes

Community

• StackOverflow
• Twitter

Tutorials

Gulp Tutorials

• Building with Gulp
• Automate Your Tasks Easily with Gulp.js
• Gulp - The Vision, History, and Future of the Project
• Introduction to Gulp.js
• Video: Learning Gulp
• Using Gulp to Inject Scripts and Styles Tags Directly into Your HTML
• 5 Lessons Learned Using Gulp.js
• Automating Linkage: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Build
• Setting Up Gulp Tasks for the First Time
• Why You Shouldn’t Create a Gulp Plugin (or, How to Stop Worrying and Learn to Love Existing Node Packages)
• 6 Gulp Best Practices You Can Use Today to Radically Improve Your Development Experience
• Gulp for Beginners

Gulp 4 Tutorials

• Migrating to Gulp 4 by Example
• Gulp 4: The new task execution system - gulp.parallel and gulp.series

Gulp with Browserify

• Gulp + Browserify, the Gulp-y Way
• Gulp + Browserify
• Fast Browserify Builds with Watchify

Gulp with Angular

• What Every Angular Project Likely Needs - and a Gulp Build to Provide It

Gulp with Angular and Browserify

• Advanced AngularJS Structure with Gulp, Node and Browserify

Gulp with Angular and Webpack

• Angular, Webpack and Gulp for an SPA: Part I
• Angular, Webpack and Gulp for an SPA: Part II
• Angular, Webpack and Gulp for an SPA: Part III

Gulp with React and Browserify

• Browserify and Gulp with React
• Taking React to the Next Level: Mixins, Gulp, and Browserify

Gulp with Ember

• Improving Your Ember.js Workflow Using Gulp.js

Gulp with WordPress

• Advanced WordPress Development Using Gulp

Miscellaneous Resources

• Gulp Cheatsheet
• Playground for Gulp Recipes

Plugins

Compilation

• gulp-sass - Sass → CSS with libsass.
• gulp-ruby-sass - Sass → CSS with Ruby Sass.
• gulp-compass - Sass → CSS with Ruby Sass & Compass.
• gulp-less - Less → CSS.
• gulp-stylus - Stylus → CSS.
• gulp-postcss - Pipe CSS through PostCSS processors with a single parse.
• gulp-coffee - Coffeescript → JavaScript.
• gulp-typescript - TypeScript → JavaScript.
• gulp-react - Facebook React JSX templates → JavaScript.
• webpack-stream - Run webpack as a stream to conveniently integrate with gulp.

Transpilation

• gulp-babel - ES6 → ES5 with babel.
• gulp-traceur - ES6 → ES5 using Traceur.
• gulp-regenerator - ES6 → ES5 with Regenerator.
• gulp-es6-transpiler - [⛔️] ES6 → ES5 with es6-transpiler.
• gulp-myth - Myth - a polyfill for future versions of the CSS spec.
• gulp-cssnext - [⛔️] Use tomorrow's CSS syntax, today, using cssnext.

Concatenation

• gulp-concat - Concatenate files.

Minification

• gulp-clean-css - Minify CSS with clean-css.
• gulp-csso - Minify CSS with CSSO.
• gulp-uglify - Minify JavaScript with UglifyJS2.
• gulp-htmlmin - Minify HTML with html-minifier.
• gulp-imagemin - Minify PNG, JPEG, GIF and SVG images with imagemin.
• gulp-svgmin - Minify SVG files with gulp.

Optimization

• gulp-uncss - Remove unused CSS selectors with UnCSS.
• gulp-css-base64 - Transform all resources found (those within a url() declaration) in CSS files into base64-encoded data URI strings.
• gulp-svg2png - Convert SVGs to PNGs.
• gulp-responsive - Generate images at different sizes.
• gulp-svgstore - Combine svg files into one with <symbol> elements.
• gulp-iconfont - Create icon fonts from several SVG icons.

Injecting Assets

• gulp-useref - Parse build blocks in HTML files to replace references to non-optimized scripts or stylesheets.
• gulp-inject - Transform each file to a string and inject each transformed string into placeholders in the target stream files.
• wiredep - Wire Bower dependencies to your source code.

Templating

• gulp-angular-templatecache - Concatenate and register AngularJS templates in the $templateCache.
• gulp-jade - Jade → HTML.
• gulp-handlebars - Handlebars templates → JavaScript.
• gulp-hb - Handlebars templates → HTML.
• gulp-nunjucks - Nunjucks templates → JavaScript.
• gulp-dustjs - Dust templates → JavaScript.
• gulp-riot - Riot templates → JavaScript.
• gulp-markdown - Markdown → HTML.
• gulp-template - Lodash templates → JavaScript.
• gulp-swig - Swig templates → HTML.
• gulp-remark - Gulp plugin for remark - markdown processor powered by plugins

Linting

• gulp-csslint - Automated linting of CSS with CSSLint.
• gulp-htmlhint - HTMLHint wrapper to validate your HTML.
• gulp-jshint - Detect errors and potential problems in JavaScript with JSHint.
• gulp-jscs - Check JavaScript code style with jscs.
• gulp-coffeelint - A style checker that helps keep CoffeeScript code clean.
• gulp-tslint - TypeScript linter plugin for gulp.
• gulp-eslint - Identify and report on patterns found in ECMAScript/JavaScript code.
• gulp-w3cjs - Validate HTML with w3cjs.
• gulp-lesshint - Lint less files with lesshint.
• gulp-check-unused-css - Check your HTML templates for unused CSS classes.

Live Reload

• browser-sync - Keep multiple browsers & devices in sync when building websites (recipes).
• gulp-livereload - Gulp plugin for livereload.

Caching

• gulp-changed - Only pass through changed files.
• gulp-cached - A simple in-memory file cache.
• gulp-remember - Remember and recall files passed through it.
• gulp-newer - Pass through newer source files only.

Flow Control

• merge-stream - Merge multiple streams into one interleaved stream.
• streamqueue - Pipe queued streams progressively.
• run-sequence - Run a series of dependent gulp tasks in order.
• gulp-if - Conditionally run a task.

Logging

• gulp-notify - Notification plugin for gulp.
• gulp-size - Display the size of your project.
• gulp-debug - Debug vinyl file streams to see what files are run through your gulp pipeline.
• gulp-beer - Better Error Reporting with interactive system notifications and custom server for error displaying.

Testing

• gulp-mocha - Run Mocha tests.
• gulp-jasmine - Run Jasmine 2 tests in Node.js.
• gulp-protractor - Gulp wrapper for Protractor tests.
• gulp-coverage - Coverage reporting for Node.js that is independent of the test runner.
• gulp-karma - Karma test runner for gulp.
• gulp-ava- Run AVA tests with gulp.

Miscellaneous Plugins

• gulp-util - Set of useful utilities.
• gulp-plumber - Prevent pipe breaking caused by errors.
• gulp-load-plugins - Automatically load in gulp plugins.
• main-bower-files - Simplify build process setup by dynamically getting the library files.
• autoprefixer - Parse CSS and add vendor prefixes to rules by Can I Use.
• gulp-sourcemaps - Provide source map support.
• gulp-replace - A string replace plugin for gulp.
• gulp-rename - Rename files easily.
• gulp-rev - Static asset revisioning by appending content hash to filenames: unicorn.css → unicorn-d41d8cd98f.css.
• del - Delete files/folders using globs.
• gulp-exec - Run a shell command.
• gulp-strip-debug - Strip console, alert, and debugger statements from JavaScript code.
• gulp-cssimport - Parses a CSS file, finds imports, grabs the content of the linked file and replaces the import statement with it.
• gulp-inline-css - Inline your CSS properties into the style attribute in an HTML file.
• gulp-gh-pages - Publish contents to Github pages.
• gulp-ng-annotate - Add AngularJS dependency injection annotations with ng-annotate.
• gulp-bump - Bump any semver JSON version.
• gulp-file-include - Include files with gulp.
• gulp-zip - ZIP compress files.
• gulp-git - Run Git commands with gulp.
• gulp-filter - Filter files in a vinyl stream using globbing.
• gulp-preprocess - Preprocess files based on custom context or environment configuration.
• gulp-eval - Eval JS-expression or require CommonJS modules and JSON files.

Scaffolding

Boilerplates

• web-starter-kit - Google Web Starter Kit.
• gulp-plugin-boilerplate - Boilerplate to kickstart creating gulp plugins.
• polymer-starter-kit - A starting point for Polymer 1.0 apps.
• este - The most complete React/Flux dev stack and starter kit for isomorphic functional web apps.
• mnml - Minimal boilerplate to start a responsive HTML5/Sass project.
• kraken - A lightweight, mobile-first boilerplate for front-end web developers.
• angularjs-gulp-browserify-boilerplate - Boilerplate using AngularJS, Sass, gulp, and Browserify.
• hapi-ninja - A Node.js, Hapi, and Swig boilerplate.
• laravel-5-boilerplate - A Laravel 5 boilerplate project.
• react-starterkit - React starter kit that contains react-router, Reflux, jest, webpack, gulp and Stylus.
• gulp-front - Frontend boilerplate and modular BEM css framework based on gulp, pug, stylus, postcss, webpack and babel.
• Front End Starter - A boilerplate for frontend projects powered by Gulp, HTML5 bolierplate, Sass, PostCss and Webpack(for Babel transpiling).

Yeoman Generators

• generator-gulp-webapp - A gulp generator for modern webapps.
• generator-gulp-angular - Yeoman generator for AngularJS with gulp.
• generator-react-gulp-browserify - A Yeoman Generator for React library. It includes gulp, Browserify, Browsersync and Bootstrap.
• generator-node-gulp - A Node.js module generator including gulp and Mocha.
• generator-gulp-bootstrap - Yeoman generator for Bootstrap, gulp & libsass.
• generator-angulpify - Yeoman generator involving AngularJS, gulp and Browserify.
• generator-ionic-gulp - A Yeoman generator for Ionic Projects with gulp.
• generator-gulp-plugin-boilerplate - Scaffold out a gulp plugin boilerplate.
• generator-jekyllized - Jekyll workflow with gulp, Sass, AutoPrefixer, asset optimization and cache busting and much more.

Miscellaneous

• elixir - A clean, fluent API for defining basic gulp tasks for your Laravel applications.
• gulp-app - Gulp as an app (OS X).
• lmn-gulp-tasks - Example of gulp tasks unit testing.
• gulp-chef - An elegant, intuitive way to reuse gulp tasks.

License

To the extent possible under law, Philipp Alferov has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this work.