If you go to gulpjs.com you will be greeted with the following banner; Automate and enhance your workflow I would like to add just one word in that banner; frontend because that is what it does best. More concisely, gulp is a frontend build system; It is a task runner built on Nodejs and npm used for automation of time-consuming and repetitiev tasks involved in web development line minification, concatenation , cache busting, unit testing, linting, optiization, etc.

Suppose you want to install an npm package globally as in npm install -g git-pending but for whatever reason encounter a permissions problem, EACCESS for example. One of the things you could do to fix that is by running the npm command with sudo privileges, as in; sudo npm install -g git-pending.

I have been having an issue with my settings program not starting. I would search for settings or look for it my list of apps and attempt to launch it. However, all I would get is a spinning wheel and then nothing. It would fail in the background without any warning or error dialog. This is inherently bad design. Anyway I am kind of used to such shortcomings in open source software.

Flask is a very simple python-based micro framework for developing web apps. It’s light, flexible, and easy to learn and extensible. It’s as capable as django or bottle and other python-frameworks.

Deploying your flask application on an apache server might seem daunting at first but it’s not that bad – if you follow these 4-5 easy steps.