Run Gulp Tasks from the Comfort of Visual Studio
If you are a back-end Sitecore or .NET developer who spends most of your time inside Visual Studio, and your project utilizes gulp tasks, then I'm sure you understand the convenience of the Task Runner Explorer. This window allows running gulp tasks from within Visual Studio, and (even cooler) it allows binding specific tasks to MS Build targets. There's just a couple steps needed to get this window to work correctly.
A guide to automating Sitecore development tasks with Gulp
This tutorial is aimed at Sitecore/.NET developers who are new to the node universe. In the previous post we set up a Sitecore project with 2 renderings that utilized ES6 JavaScript modules. We compiled and bundled the JavaScript modules and their 3rd party dependencies using npm and rollup. Today we will improve our setup by adding automation. We will utilize the following frameworks: