To be honest, I am fairly new to JS automations.

A year ago, I used to imagine that Gulp JS is all about automating complicated tasks – until I realized that it is way more than that.

Gulp can automate most tasks, and you can define tasks as anything between:

• Take a file, do this to that, then do this to that resulting file, and save it somewhere.
• When I do this, do that.
• Its not just about compiling or minifying CSS assets. You can even have Gulp cut out hundreds of PDF files for you (that’s how I discovered it)!
• Logging!

No joke.

Here are a few cool Gulp Plugins:

1. gulp-clean – A gulp plugin for removing files and folders from given paths.
2. gulp-concat – Streaming concat middleware
3. gulp-uglify – Minify files with UglifyJS
4. gulp-rename – Do you want to keep both, minified and source files around?

You can learn more about how to begin with Gulp here (bangla) and here (english).