The benefit of using Gulp is to automate the creation and manage redundant tasks and workflows. These tasks and workflows may include running a local server, minifying code, optimizing images, preprocessing CSS and more. I’m going to go through setting up a project with gulp and some common gulp tasks. Prerequisites and Assumptions Node and npm is already installed in Mac environment Assuming a project has an src/ file folder with html, css and js files in it Initializing Gulp in a project Project Moving to my project folder named gulpjs4, a package.