Bundling and minifying JavaScript files with Gulp

In this recipe, we will learn how to bundle and minify two JavaScript files with the Gulp task runner.

Getting ready

We will assume that you've already installed Visual Studio 2015 Community Edition, and that the installer automatically installed Node.js and npm. Here are the two JavaScript files to bundle and minify:

Let's see the code of the first of these two files:

Here is the code of the second:

How to do it...

1. First, we add Gulp to package.json and the Gulp plugins. Then we need to minify and bundle...