Gulp

Gulp is another toolkit for automating painful or time-consuming tasks in your development workflow, so you can stop messing around and build something effortlessly.

The following are the characteristics of the Gulp toolkit:

• Automation: Gulp helps you automate the tough, laborious, and repetitive tasks from your development life cycle, such as optimization, minifying, testing, CSS preprocessing, and deploying
• Platform-agnostic: Gulp integration support is built and made available with all key IDEs and can be used with Java, Node.js, .NET, PHP and other platforms
• Strong ecosystem: With the tremendous support from npm and open source, there are numerous plugins for streaming file transformations
• Simple: Gulp is easy to learn and simple to use by offering a nominal API platform