This document discusses using Gulp for automation tasks in Sitecore projects. It provides an overview of Gulp and how it compares to Grunt. Gulp can be used to automate publishing processes and compilations for Habitat, a modular Sitecore solution. Specific Gulp plugins like gulp-msbuild and gulp-watch are useful for ASP.NET development. The document demonstrates how Gulp works with an example.

1. SITECORE & GULP
Way of automatization in Sitecore projects

2. WHAT IS GULP?
 Tool for automatization tasks
 Running on node.js
 Highly customizable – over
2000 plugins available
 Very flexible

3. SOMETHING
SIMILAR?
 Precursor of Gulp
 Still good and widely used
tool
 More than 5000 plugins
 Large and still growing
community
 Recently gives a way of
leadership to Gulp

4. QUICK COMPARISION
 Grunt focuses on configuration, Gulp focuses on code
 Grunt has lot of commonly used heavy tasks
 Gulp provides platform to connect lightweight tasks, built by community,
between each other
VS

5. HOW CANWE USE GULP WITH SITECORE?
 Automatization of publish process for solutions with many web projects (Habitat)
 Automatization of publishing for changes in e.g. MVCViews, CSS, JavaScripts
 Automatic compilation of Sass/Less, CoffeeScript, etc.

6. SITECORE HABITAT PROJECT
 Sitecore solution example built on a modular architecture
 The architecture and methodology focuses on:
 Simplicity - A consistent and discoverable architecture
 Flexibility - Change and add quickly and without worry
 Extensibility - Simply add new features without steep learning curve
In few words:
 Total split of solution into three separate sections: Features, Foundation &
Project
 Features are separated from themselves so they can be used in other projects

7. LET’S SEE HABITAT

8. USEFUL PLUGING FOR ASP.NET DEVELOPER
 gulp-msbuild – running MSBuild commands
 gulp-watch – file watcher that can make action just as file is changed

9. DEMO

10. THANKYOU 
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