My learnings from Gulp

gulplearnings

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 Useful modules
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* gulp-debug (https://www.npmjs.org/package/gulp-debug) - get a better overview of what's going on with files

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 Debugging
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This one dumps errors with stack trace. Just drop this in your file somewhere and you'll get all the error from tasks running, also from other modules which aren't gulp plugins.

  gulp.on('err', function(e) {
    console.log(e.err.stack);
  });

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 Asynch
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If you have some tasks that must be run, you can use the dependency system in gulp

     gulp.task('my-task', ['dependent-task'], function(){...]);

You can of course add a control flow library and stuff, but I'd think the built in should be enough and there are plans on making this easier in Gulp core module.

Returning from a task is the current way to make tasks synchronous.