Cake vs Gulp

cake-vs-gulp.md

Cake

• Doesn't output stdout or stderr of task commands automatically, so you have to do something like this:

   {print} = require 'util'
   {spawn} = require 'child_process'
   
   task 'build', 'Build js/ from src/', ->
   	coffee = spawn 'coffee', ['-c', '-o', 'js', 'src']
   	coffee.stderr.on 'data', (data) ->
   		process.stderr.write data.toString()
   	coffee.stdout.on 'data', (data) ->
   		print data.toString()
   	coffee.on 'exit', (code) ->
   		callback?() if code is 0
   
   task 'watch', 'Watch src/ for changes', ->
   	coffee = spawn 'coffee', ['-w', '-c', '-o', 'js', 'src']
   	coffee.stderr.on 'data', (data) ->
   		process.stderr.write data.toString()
   	coffee.stdout.on 'data', (data) ->
   		print data.toString()

(from Spine)

Gulp

• streaming

Other: spawn Cake doesn't execute shell commands serially (there is surely an npm module for this)