Homebrew, Node, and Gulp for WordPress Development

To install Gulp you have to install node which is a JavaScript runtime on which Gulp is built. Yes it offers a lot of other functionality but it's all beyond the scope of this post.. I've outlined the steps below and done what I can to explain what each package does so you know what you're installing and what you're doing if or when you encounter a project like this... Homebrew Node and Gulp. Though I have a suite of tools I prefer to use on projects that I work on from the ground-up the nature of contract work is that you're not always able to use those tools.. This will install the necessarily dependencies and will then tell Gulp to watch for modifications to your Sass files. If this looks kind of weird just know that it's using cURL and the installed Ruby executable to download the Homebrew package and install it on your system..  Read more