caraya / gulp-starter-2021

Repo for basic writing tools and processed files

Starter 2021

Every so ofter I like to look at my build process and see where I can make improvements or changes that are necessary because the code has changed.

For this iteration the changes are:

• Finally switched to the current recommended method of defining tasks.
  • There are things that don't work with the current system(although the Gulp maintainers say they should) so I will bite the bullet and change it.
• Moved from the almost unsupported Imagemin plugin go gulp-libsquoosh
  • It has the advantages that supported formats are implemented as WASM libraries so they'll work everywhere
  • The codecs are also bundled with libsquoosh so there's no need to install additional plugins to make it work
• Moved to markdown-it as the Markdown parser
  • Adding plugins still doesn't work, not sure why. Still researching the issue
• The syntax for gulp-exec changed so I moved the PDF generation code to the new syntax
• Another major and unexpected change is that node-sass is deprecated in favor of gulp-sass and the current dart-sass version
  • As a result the sass task has been modified to run with the new gulp-sass in synchronous mode
  • dart-sass is now the normative SASS version and the first one that will receive new features, updates and fixes

Dependencies

• Prince XML to generate PDFs from HTML
  • Because it's a commericla product I cannot share it. You can download it for evaluation purposes from the website
• libsquoosh is used internally by gulp-libssquoosh to optimize images
• markdown-it is used to parse Markdown files