Preparing the JavaScript plugins

Some of Bootstrap's components do not only require CSS but also JavaScript. Bootstrap comes with jQuery plugins for commonly used components. Similarly, the navbar requires the collapse plugin and the carousel component has its own plugin too.

Bootstrap's plugins require jQuery and the Tooltips and Popover components also require the Tether library.

In the build process, you can bundle jQuery, Tether, and the plugins into a single file by using the gulp-concat plugin.

You can install the gulp-concat plugin by running the following command in your console:

npm install gulp-concat --save-dev

After that the task that bundles the JavaScript files may look like:

gulp.task('compile-js', function() { 
  return gulp.src([bowerpath+ 'jquery/dist/jquery.min.js', bowerpath+ 'tether/dist/js/tether.min.js', bowerpath+ 'bootstrap/dist/js/bootstrap.min.js','js/main.js']) 
    .pipe(concat('app.js')) 
    .pipe(gulp.dest('./_site/js/')); 
}); 

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