For every small tool you want to use in Gulp you either have to write your own Gulp task in JS, or add a plugin wrapper to the tool as an additional dependency

For every small tool you want to use in Gulp you either have to write your own Gulp task in JS, or add a plugin wrapper to the tool as an additional dependency to your project. Doesn't seem ideal. Just by switching to npm scripts you could probably reduce by at least 50% the number of 3rd party dependencies in your build. Also streaming stuff around inside a Gulp process is good in terms of speed, but imo quite complicated conceptually, and doesn't match the simplicity of piping stdout between one-liner CLI commands.