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Control Add-ins Supercharged: Hello, gulp!

Get ready for the next big step in taking the control add-in development to the next level. Today, I am (re)introducing gulp.

I’ve blogged about gulp in the past, but I’ve never really finished that series. Life and work got in the way. But while I may not have blogged about it much, it’s been my companion for quite some time now, and now I want it to become yours, too.

In previous “Control Add-ins Supercharged” examples we’ve mostly explored how not to do things. Now we are ready to take a look in the opposite direction and start talking about how to do do things.

For this example, I’ll use my next demo branch 04-gulp-hello-world that you can check out here: https://github.com/vjekob/supercharged_01/tree/03-gulp-hello-world.

I don’t intend to copy/paste all the theory explained in the branch’s Readme file, but I’ll just say what you can find there:

  • Steps to install the prerequisites to run gulp
  • Steps to install gulp and make sure it works
  • Examples how to run gulp tasks from both command line and VS Code
  • Just a tiny little bit of theory around Node.js packages
  • A few good practices around some Node.js artifacts that will appear in your workspace once you install gulp

And with this small example that introduces gulp I conclude the introduction into the “Control Add-ins Supercharged” series. All the next steps will deliver ready-to-use stuff that you can plug into your own control add-in development process, and we’ll start building our toolchain step by step.

Have a great weekend!

Vjeko

Vjeko has been writing code for living since 1995, and he has shared his knowledge and experience in presentations, articles, blogs, and elsewhere since 2002. Hopelessly curious, passionate about technology, avid language learner no matter human or computer.

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