the sound developers make when they have a hard pill to swallow. Gulp is a JavaScript toolkit used to automate repetitive or time-consuming tasks. At a high level, Gulp reads files as streams and pipes those streams to different tasks. It's often used in frontend development for tasks like spinning up a web server or optimizing CSS, JavaScript and images. Gulp is referred to as a “build tool”, because it runs the tasks for building for the web. With similar tools called “Broccoli” and “Brunch”, it's obvious developers have a desperate need to make their work more palatable.
“Hey, John, do you mind bundling those style sheets and scripts from 500 different folders?” *gulp*
