Gulp | LESS | SCSS | JS

Automate your LESS/SCSS task and bundle your JS scripts with Gulp.js

Step 1: Install Node.js

We need Node.js to run Gulp. Node.js can be download from http://nodejs.org/eng Open the command prompt in your system and enter following command.

node -v

This will display the installed Node.js version.

npm -v

The version of npm which is used to install modules.

Step 2: Setup your Gulp Project with npm packages

When you’re done with installing Node, Download Project from GitHub or clone project to your machine.

git clone https://github.com/03bgls25/gulp-less-scss-js.git

Now install npm packages listed on package.json file by using following command in the command prompt. Adding “–g” flag ensure that the Gulp is globally available for any project.

npm install

Step 3: Configure your Gulp Project

Open gulpfile.js file. Then you can configure you project directory of source and destination path by changing var config.

var config = {
    paths: {
        src: {
            scss: './src/scss/',
            less: './src/less/',
            scripts: './src/scripts/',
        },
        dest: './docs/',
    },
    serve: {
        proxy: '',
        server: './docs/'
    }
};

Step 4: Run Gulp task

You can run your Gulp project by entering following command

gulp

gulp serve