I routinely use a Makefile for building my frontend resources, which works quite well: https://github.com/adewes/gitboard/blob/master/Makefile https://github.c

I routinely use a Makefile for building my frontend resources, which works quite well: https://github.com/adewes/gitboard/blob/master/Makefile https://github.com/adewes/gitboard/blob/master/Makefile Using the inotify tools it's even possible to automatically trigger a rebuild whenever a file changes. For me, no need to use Gulp anymore, as Makefiles are easier to reason about, more composable and make use of existing infrastructure instead of reinventing the wheel over and over again.