Gulp 5

Workflow pipelines & automation.

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· Reviewed by David Mytton

What we like

Create composable pipelines of tasks and process them. Run tasks in series and/or parallel to break complex flows into multiple pipelines. Supports file watching to run workflows as things change. It’s a framework on top of JS so you get the full power of JS - process execution, calling APIs, other modules, etc. Open source.

Tradeoffs

Upgrade from v4 to v5 changed default stream encoding to UTF-8 which can break some binary file transformations when using incorrect encoding configs.

Is Gulp 5 a fit?

Based on Console’s review published on 2024-05-09. Summary updated .

Who it’s for

Developers who need to automate workflows and create pipelines of tasks

Why consider it

It allows running tasks in series and/or parallel to break complex flows into multiple pipelines

Keep in mind

It may break some binary file transformations when using incorrect encoding configs due to the default stream encoding change to UTF-8

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