The Why of a Task Runner

A task runner does much more than just compile Sass into native CSS. In this video, you will learn about the why of using a task runner, like gulp, to automate redundant tasks. It will improve your productivity.

There are plenty of plugins available that you install as a node module which do tasks such as:

• Sass prefixing, gathering up media queries, error checking, and minifying
• Load Bourbon and Neat (and others) as a node module instead of using Bower
• Converting scripts into one minified file plus error checking
• Optimize images, SVG, and sprites
• Run translations
• and more