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I've known several of the main devs behind gulp for some time... and tbh, I switched away from gulp to direct scripts some time ago. If I can run it straight in npm, I'll do that... if I need more, I'll favor running a script in a directory for that purpose. glob, shelljs and mz give you a lot of what you might need. And it's often less code than gulp scripts might be.

An example[1] work in progress boilerplate I've been heading towards as time permits, will probably have it flushed out by the end of next month, including migrating to the latest webpack.

Of course a lot of the reason for options, is there are so many... server rendering, react v angular, angular 1 or 2+, bootstrap or foundation or ??? In the end, it's great in some was and not so much in others. I, like you prefer to have the choice/control.

Frameworks like rails are great at getting you 85-90% of the way to done... but that other 10-15% is so painful, you're often better off with DIY in the long run.

https://github.com/tracker1/react-redux-materialui-boilerpla...