Gulp 4: Automate your development workflow

A very good short course on Gulp, had up and running in a day. It is getting a bit long in tooth in some areas, making it due for another update. The gulp-sass and sass modules are particularly matter of growing concern as well as modifying your gulpfile.js to work with Gulp 5 new "features."

Great course to learn gulp for beginners. I like the approach of writing the whole code from beginning to the end.

“If you give a man a fish, you feed him for a day. If you teach a man to fish, you feed him for a lifetime.” I feel like this proverb wasn't really followed in this course. Instead of teaching us the basic building blocks of Gulp, explaining how they work, rather we got several recipes, where at HTML .kit the repetitive nature of the lectures started to become less useful to me. It's okay to introduce us all the tool set you mentioned, but tools like HTML .kit does not have to be taught with the same level of detail because they don't add much new stuff. Also, I hear phrases like this every time: click here, scroll there, go back to VS Code, press Enter, etc., not only which feels like I'm in elementary school, but it also intensifies the "recipes" way of teaching. Plus the speech feels too robotic because the same intonations are used all the time. It's like I'm reading some text loudly. Public Speech 101: don't be a robot, and connect with the audience, otherwise--sad truth--they might think the presenter is unprofessional, which is of course not like that, but that's the impression it creates. By the way unlike others I won't say "too slow" because the playback speed can be adjusted, which I did. I bought this course as this was the most up to date one on the topic according to my search (last updated in 2022), but instead what I got was plenty of videos using the non-modern style, and one video telling how to use the modern style... :( At least we got the updates, but just sticking to one style (the newest one) could have been more useful to the learner because we don't have to get used to the new API and mapping between the old and new API as we recall what we learned while using Gulp in a real project. Especially that the new style has been out for a few years (since around the beginning of 2019?). Maybe I'm expecting too much on this regard, but to me it looks reasonable that we don't have to do the mental mapping to the new style. We should do the mental mapping to the old style instead, because that's the one we would use less in the future. Teaching outdated stuff just won't cut it as years go by. Especially when the IT world keeps developing so fast, outdated stuff only matter in legacy projects. The accent also bothered me a bit, like mixed British and American English pronounciation, /sʌkˈsesful/ instead of /səkˈsesfl/ , /tesk/ instead of /tɑːsk/ or /tæsk/, etc. /zə/ instead of /ðə/, sɪŋk/ instead of θɪŋk/, etc. But that's subjective, some others aren't bothered by it or at least much less.

It was an amazing and useful course. It helped me a lot to understand Gulp, and most importantly after gulp, the architecture of the folders. 😄 Thank you for this course, you helped me a lot. Best regards 👋