Gulp for Magento 2

As a Magento 2 frontend developer you might have noticed that less to css compilation process is slow with grunt and it takes more time to rebuild everything making you an inefficient developer.

However, you could solve this problem with Gulp. Gulp is a task / build runner which uses Node.js for web development. The main difference between Gulp and Grunt lies in how they deal with their automation tasks inside.

Gulp uses Node Stream while Grunt uses temp files. Therefore, Gulp compilation is faster compared to Grunt.

1. Download as a zip file or clone this in to ur pc.

2. Copy "gulpfile.js" and "package.json" in to the root directory (codepool)

3. Install node.js for your OS: https://nodejs.org/en/

4. Install gulp globaly using npm install -g gulp-cli

5. Install modules: run a command in a root directory of your project "npm install".
   (If you alrady instaled Grunt please remove node_module directory)

1. Run : gulp exec --theme ex: gulp exec --luma
   Or: php bin\magento dev:source-theme:deploy --locale="en_AU" --area="frontend"
--theme="VendorName/themeName"

2. Run : gulp deploy --theme ex: gulp deploy --luma
   Or: php bin\magento setup:static-content:deploy en_AU

3. Run gulp command in the root directory with arguments or without. Examples:
   3.a. Compilation of all themes: gulp
   3.b. Compilation of certain theme: gulp less --luma
   3.c. Watcher of certain theme: gulp watch --luma
   3.d. Compilation of certain theme with minification (+~2.5s): gulp less --luma --min
   3.e. Compilation of certain theme with sourcemap(+~1.5s), can't be used with minification: gulp less --luma --map
   3.f. Compilation with live reload: gulp less --luma --live
   3.g. Watcher with liveReload: gulp watch --luma --live
   3.h. For clear the magento cache: gulp cache-flush
   

4. For using liveReload install extension for your browser: http://livereload.com/
   4.a. Turn on the extension on the page of project.