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Re:Gulp.js: The streaming build system by Recoil42 on Thursday August 21, 2014 @01:05PM (#8208367)
"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.

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Re:Gulp.js: The streaming build system by aymericbeaumet on Thursday August 21, 2014 @05:08PM (#8209620)
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/runn...

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