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Even though they are clearly related, Gulp and Grunt are fulfilling different purposes. You should carefully examined your needs before choosing one over anothe

Even though they are clearly related, Gulp and Grunt are fulfilling different purposes. You should carefully examined your needs before choosing one over another. I recently switched to Gulp for several projects, and I'm thinking of switching back to Grunt. Gulp lacks of some important features. For instance, it does not allow to sequentially execute tasks: everything is done in parallel. This could for sure be emulated by using async, but the overhead is not worth it. On the other side, Grunt does support sequential and parallel tasks execution, but is more verbose and does a lot of file writing on the disk (though it is relatively moderate). One concrete example for sequential tasks execution (easily done with Grunt): - Watch JavaScript files, when a modifications is detected: - lint files -> [JSHint, JSCS] - if success: launch tests -> [Karma, Mocha] - if success: notify - If any failure occurs: notify and abort the sequence

terinjokes 12y ago
We're adding the ability to handle sequential tasks (and other cool combinations) in Gulp 4. See bach[1] for some ideas. [1]: https://github.com/phated/bach https://github.com/phated/bach
- aymericbeaumet 12y ago
  I remember some discussions on Gulp's issues tracker where maintainers were reticent about integrating sequential tasks execution. But that's great if you are going to do it. This may make me come around and give a second chance to Gulp.
Recoil42 12y ago
"For instance, it does not allow to sequentially execute tasks: everything is done in parallel." This is false. You can set perquisites for a task, which will be executed in sequence.
- aymericbeaumet 12y ago
  I think you are talking about this[1], indeed you are right. However, task dependencies allows sequential tasks execution, but that's not very handy as you may want a same task to be executed in two different sequences. Let's see a simple example on which I honestly struggle to reproduce with Gulp: [Lint, Test] -> Concatenation -> Minification Watch -> [Lint, Test] -> LiveReload How would you do such a setup without having a redundancy in your tasks declaration? [1]: https://github.com/gulpjs/gulp/blob/master/docs/recipes/running-tasks-in-series.md https://github.com/gulpjs/gulp/blob/master/docs/recipes/runn...
adamors 12y ago
> it does not allow to sequentially execute tasks: everything is done in parallel There's a package[1] for Gulp which does exactly that. [1]: https://www.npmjs.org/package/run-sequence https://www.npmjs.org/package/run-sequence
- aymericbeaumet 12y ago
  I didn't know about it! Thanks
vlunkr 12y ago
There are ways, like others have said. There is also a callback system you can use to make things sequential, but last time I looked it wasn't well documented
- aymericbeaumet 12y ago
  There are always ways. But I find Grunt much more handy to do it.

terinjokes 12y ago

We're adding the ability to handle sequential tasks (and other cool combinations) in Gulp 4. See bach[1] for some ideas. [1]: https://github.com/phated/bach https://github.com/phated/bach

aymericbeaumet 12y ago
I remember some discussions on Gulp's issues tracker where maintainers were reticent about integrating sequential tasks execution. But that's great if you are going to do it. This may make me come around and give a second chance to Gulp.

Recoil42 12y ago

"For instance, it does not allow to sequentially execute tasks: everything is done in parallel." This is false. You can set perquisites for a task, which will be executed in sequence.

aymericbeaumet 12y ago
I think you are talking about this[1], indeed you are right. However, task dependencies allows sequential tasks execution, but that's not very handy as you may want a same task to be executed in two different sequences. Let's see a simple example on which I honestly struggle to reproduce with Gulp: [Lint, Test] -> Concatenation -> Minification Watch -> [Lint, Test] -> LiveReload How would you do such a setup without having a redundancy in your tasks declaration? [1]: https://github.com/gulpjs/gulp/blob/master/docs/recipes/running-tasks-in-series.md https://github.com/gulpjs/gulp/blob/master/docs/recipes/runn...

adamors 12y ago

> it does not allow to sequentially execute tasks: everything is done in parallel There's a package[1] for Gulp which does exactly that. [1]: https://www.npmjs.org/package/run-sequence https://www.npmjs.org/package/run-sequence

aymericbeaumet 12y ago
I didn't know about it! Thanks

vlunkr 12y ago

There are ways, like others have said. There is also a callback system you can use to make things sequential, but last time I looked it wasn't well documented

aymericbeaumet 12y ago
There are always ways. But I find Grunt much more handy to do it.