gulp is simply vinyl, vinyl-fs, orchestrator, a CLI, and a set of guidelines to help people make good plugins. Even with a tiny feature set, it has completely disrupted the build tool ecosystem and kicked off a new wave of awesome projects that are revolutionizing your workflow. Let’s start from the bottom and work our way up while explaining some of the pieces behind gulp and where they’re headed
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