[tptee]

The move to npm scripts is such a regressive fashion choice in the frontend world. Which of the following sounds better?

- Write your build with the full power of the language you use everyday and orchestrate it with a thin layer like Gulp - Write uncommented (and uncomment-able) bash scripts where parallelism, streaming, and cross-platform compatibility require nontrivial effort

Gulp isn't as complicated as some have insinuated. You don't even need to use Gulp plugins if that's a concern–it's just Node!

I'd much rather write Javascript to build Javascript than memorize CLI arguments and break all of my scripts on Windows.

I will say that the best part of npm scripts is that they're not Grunt :)

[pauldotknopf]

Exactly, you can treat Gulp like the a pure make system, and do whatever you want in each target.