To set up a Gulp project from scratch, first install
Node.js and npm. Then, globally install Gulp using the command ‘
npm install gulp -g’. Create a new directory for your project and navigate into it. Initialize a new npm project with ‘
npm init’ and follow the prompts to create a
package.json file. Install Gulp locally in your project using ‘
npm install gulp –save-dev’, which adds Gulp as a devDependency in your
package.json file.
Next, create a Gulpfile.js at the root of your project. This is where you’ll define tasks. Start by requiring Gulp at the top of this file with
‘const gulp = require(‘gulp’);’. Now, you can start defining tasks. For example, to define a default task that logs ‘
Hello, World!’, write:
gulp.task('default', function() {
console.log('Hello, World!');
});​
Run this task using ‘
gulp’ in your terminal.
