Gulp.js

gulp
Original author(s)Eric Schoffstall
Developer(s)Blaine Bublitz, Eric Schoffstall
Initial release26 September 2013 (2013-09-26)
Stable release
5.0.0 / 29 March 2024 (2024-03-29)
Repositorygithub.com/gulpjs/gulp
Written inJavaScript
Operating systemLinux, macOS, Windows
PlatformNode.js
TypeToolkit
LicenseMIT License
Websitegulpjs.com 

gulp is an open-source JavaScript toolkit, used as a streaming build system (similar to a more package-focused Make) in front-end web development.

It is a task runner built on Node.js and npm, used for automation of time-consuming and repetitive tasks involved in web development like minification, concatenation, cache busting, unit testing, linting, optimization, etc.

gulp uses a code-over-configuration approach to define its tasks and relies on its small, single-purpose plugins to carry them out. The gulp ecosystem includes more than 3500 such plugins.