Summary
In this chapter, you learned about the importance of build systems in software development and the growth of interest in their use in modern web development workflows.
As we introduce new tools, such as preprocessors and JavaScript libraries, we should have a way to properly organize those files into an efficient workflow and build them for production-ready releases.
We discussed the tools that we will be using throughout the rest of the book and how they all work together and interact with one another to provide us with a solid build system solution that we can use for our projects.
With a basic understanding of these tools and their uses, you can now begin to learn how to set up our local environment for Gulp. In the next chapter, you will learn about our command-line application, install our software, and prepare our project to begin writing code.
