Writing a task

All tasks in gulp share a common structure. Having reviewed the five methods at the beginning of this section, you will already be familiar with most of it. Some tasks might end up being larger than others, but they still follow the same pattern. To better illustrate how they work, let's examine a bare skeleton of a task. This skeleton is the basic bone structure of each task we will be creating. Studying this structure will make it incredibly simple to understand how parts of gulp work together to create a task. An example of a sample task is as follows:

    gulp.task(name, function() {
       return gulp.src(path)
         .pipe(plugin)
         .pipe(plugin)
         .pipe(gulp.dest(path));
    });

In the first line, we use the new gulp variable that we created a moment ago and access the .task() method. This creates a new task in our gulpfile. As you learned earlier, the task method accepts two arguments: a task name as a string and a callback function that will contain...