Using Gulp to Speed Up WordPress Development

Build tools let developers focus on efficient development rather than the nitty-gritty details that take away half your life but don’t add much to the project on their own. One such build tool is Gulp. Gulp optimizes your theme’s images, concatenate your JS files, and processes your Sass/LESS code automatically. In this article, I’ll show you how to get started and how you can use Gulp to speed up your development process. What is Gulp? Gulp is a JavaScript-based build tool that uses Node to automate mundane tasks. The basic idea is to create triggers that perform a specific action.

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