ci VS gulp

APPVEYOR: Appveyor is an open source project builder. It works good for GITHUB repositories. The user can login to the actual VM. For more info: https://www.appveyor.com/

appveyor.com — CD service for Windows, free for Open Source

AppVeyor (GitLab/Gitea)

If you don't have an access to Mac or PC you can bundle your app for all three platforms with AppVeyor - Continuous Integration service for Windows, Linux and macOS. In short, Continuous Integration (CI) is an automated process of building, testing and deploying (Continuous Delivery - CD) application on every push to a repository.

I then do my building on a CI/CD service that offers Windows VMs free to open-source projects, with Appveyor being the first I'm aware of to start doing so.

Appveyor does as well. https://www.appveyor.com/

We were also using AppVeyor for CI during the early periods of the library and I managed to add a step at the end of the CI pipeline to do a NuGet publish, when a tag was created in GitHub. This completely removed any human error or any inadvertent omissions due to lack of time etc. This worked well for us other than the occasional NuGet publish failures due to expired API key. We had to jump into AppVeyor dashboard to see what was going on and fix things. Eventually, we migrated all the CI builds to use GitHub actions so that we can lookup things all in one-place without logging into different systems. This is a huge convenience and time saver for us. We settled on doing a manual GitHub action trigger (user invoked) especially for publishing NuGet packages rather than keep it automated so that we can inspect and keep an eye on the NuGet publish as it happens after we tag and add a release in GitHub.

I thing yes. Personally i'm use powershell scripts to deploy things via appveyor and to run something locally via task scheduler.

Can't cross-build to the MSVC or macOS targets without a license to use the Microsoft or Apple C/C++ developer tools for the final linkage against the platform libraries... and I believe even the free ones require you to have a valid license for Windows or own a Macintosh. (This can be worked around by building your release artifacts on a free-for-open-source CI/CD service like Appveyor or using the MinGW target for Windows if you don't need to link to MSVC-built libraries.)

Script source: https://github.com/appveyor/ci/blob/master/scripts/enterprise/grant_logon_as_service.ps1

A little gulp and npm knowledge is beneficial, but not required

Many web pages use CSS and JavaScript files to handle various features and styles. Each file, however, requires a separate HTTP request, which can slow down page loading. Concatenation comes into play here. It involves combining multiple CSS or JavaScript files into a single file. As a result, pages load faster, reducing the time spent requesting individual files. Gulp, Grunt, and Webpack are some of the tools that can assist you in speeding up the concatenation process. They enable seamless merging of many files during development, ensuring deployment readiness.

Once you build a simple Vite backend integration, try not to complicate Vite's configuration unless you absolutely must. Vite has become one of the most popular bundlers in the frontend space, but it wasn't the first and it certainly won't be the last. In my 7 years of building for the web, I've used Grunt, Gulp, Webpack, esbuild, and Parcel. Snowpack and Rome came-and-went before I ever had a chance to try them. Bun is vying for the spot of The New Hotness in bundling, Rome has been forked into Biome, and Vercel is building a Rust-based Webpack alternative.

NPM packages include a wide range of tools such as frameworks like Express or React, libraries like jQuery, and task runners such as Gulp, and Webpack.

Another way to optimize is by reducing the size of CSS, JavaScript, and HTML files by removing comments, unnecessary spaces, and line breaks. Combine CSS and JavaScript files into a single file to reduce the number of server requests. This can be done using build tools like Webpack or Gulp.

Gulp - the streaming build system

Browserify was great at bundling scripts, but what if we need to transform code - Say compile CoffeeScript to JavaScript, for this, a new group of tools for the web was born, which focussed on running code transforms. These are usually called task runners, and the most popular ones are Grunt and Gulp.

What we see, a decade ago, are that many of the "popular" libraries, frameworks, and methods, not surprisingly, have gone by the wayside, a lot that have remained in current code as difficult-to-removemodernize legacy cruft (Bower, Gulp, Grunt, Backbone, Angular 1, ...), and then we have the small minority that are still here. Some that remain have had their utility lessened/questioned by platform and language improvements (jQuery, lodash, ...), but very, very few exist that are the same now as they were then. Another fun historical reference: issue #118 of "JavaScript Weekly" (February 22, 2013) includes a first link out to asm.js.

Reminds me of gulp

GULP: Gulp is basically a task automation tool. The file that you create in this tool, is a plain JavaScript file that you can run to automate you menial tasks. It comes under the category of package manager. Gulp is very developer friendly and easy to learn. For more info: https://gulpjs.com/