Gulp is another toolkit for automating painful or time-consuming tasks in your development workflow, so you can stop messing around and build something effortlessly.
The following are the characteristics of the Gulp toolkit:
- Automation: Gulp helps you automate the tough, laborious, and repetitive tasks from your development life cycle, such as optimization, minifying, testing, CSS preprocessing, and deploying
- Platform-agnostic: Gulp integration support is built and made available with all key IDEs and can be used with Java, Node.js, .NET, PHP and other platforms
- Strong ecosystem: With the tremendous support from npm and open source, there are numerous plugins for streaming file transformations
- Simple: Gulp is easy to learn and simple to use by offering a nominal API platform
