Gulp Starter

This Gulp starter project provides a basis for a JavaScript UI (just the client-side). It provides:

• Example AngularJS & Bootstrap app
• Asset pipeline for LESS, JavaScript, images, and HTML that does basic compilation and syntax checking in development mode and minification for production mode
• Development server with LiveReload integration
• Production server used to test the production assets
• Transparent Bower integration

Project Layout

app/html      ->  HTML assets
app/img       ->  Image assets
app/js        ->  JavaScript assets
app/less      ->  LESS assets
bower.json    ->  Bower / client-side dependencies
gulpfile.js   ->  The Gulp build definition
package.json  ->  The NPM build definition

Setup

1. Git clone this repo

2. Install Node.js / npm

3. Fetch the dependencies with npm:

    npm update
   

4. Install Gulp

    npm install -g gulp
   

5. Verify Gulp works

    gulp
   

Use the Gulp Build

• Run the dev mode server

    gulp dev
  

  This runs a local server: http://localhost:5000

  Changes to any of the source files (in the app dir) will automatically be available in the running server. If LiveReload is enabled your browser will automatically be refreshed.

• Run the prod mode server

    gulp prod
  

  This runs a local server: http://localhost:5000

• Update Bower dependencies by simply modifying the bower.json file. No need to actually run bower as this build will do it for you.

• Generate assets for production

    gulp dist
  

  Everything will be in the dist directory.

• Cleanup

    gulp clean
  

  Note: Do not combine the clean task with other tasks on the command line because they run in parallel.