It was used to hack together build pipelines since the tools didn't fit together nicely, creating hard to debug messes which we grew tired of. Those hacks can b

It was used to hack together build pipelines since the tools didn't fit together nicely, creating hard to debug messes which we grew tired of. Those hacks can be replaced with webpack and you're often left with a few snippets that fit nicely in the script section of package.json (npm scripts). Gulp is still useful for some projects, but a lot less often.