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gulp vs Just: What are the differences?
What is gulp? The streaming build system. Build system automating tasks: minification and copying of all JavaScript files, static images. More capable of watching files to automatically rerun the task when a file changes.
What is Just? A library that organizes build tasks for your JS projects. It is a build task definition library. It stands on the shoulders of two excellent and well tested libraries: undertaker and yargs. It also provides what we call "stacks" to complete the workflow of building a repository.
gulp and Just belong to "JS Build Tools / JS Task Runners" category of the tech stack.
gulp and Just are both open source tools. gulp with 31.3K GitHub stars and 4.4K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Just with 1.31K GitHub stars and 44 GitHub forks.
Pros of gulp
- Build speed451
- Readable277
- Code-over-configuration244
- Open source210
- Node streams175
- Intuitive107
- Lots of plugins83
- Works great with browserify66
- Easy to Learn45
- Laravel-elixir17
- build workflow4
- Simple & flexible3
- Great community3
- Stylus intergration2
- Clean Code2
- jade intergration2
- Well documented0