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by cbarrick 1154 days ago
In undergrad, I wrote a Gulp plugin (a Node build tool) to run shell scripts. The added value was the ability to connect the script's stdin/stdout into the Gulp pipeline.

I wrote it in a weekend, just as a one-off while I was learning Node and procrastinating my other studies.

Today, it gets just under 30k weekly downloads. Which isn't a ton, but it shows that it's still being used.

After I got a real job, I found it in an internal third-party repo. Apparently some contractors built a site with it years ago.