This guide seeks to help out those trying to set up javascript transpilation and minification using Gulp 4. Since minification is mostly beneficial on the front-end side of the web, this article describes how to set up basic HTML and CSS minifcation as well.

By default Gulp does not support modern javascript features such as import statements, consts and lets. In this quick post I try to describe how to set up Gulp 4 to allow for a modern gulpfile.

Most designers coming from Adobe Illustrator may think making the switch to Affinity Designer is a trivial task due to its similar look and layout. This guide is meant to highlight and explain some of the subtle differences and quirks I stumbled into when I first started using Affinity Designer.

About a month ago I stumbled upon gulpjs, a task runner which makes automation easy and understandable. Even though Gulp is easy, it still took me a bit longer than expected to figure out its usage, especially so for gulp 4.0 (which still happens to be in beta)