[AdrianRossouw]

since i switched to webpack, i've had very little reason to use gulp in my projects.

Anything extra was very easily managed by some simple Makefiles.

[Plugawy]

Can you post some examples of your Makefiles?

I'm trying to work out how I can replace Rails' asset pipeline without getting a headache caused by overwhelming number of node-based tools I'd have to install.

Having one tool + make sounds like something I'd gladly adopt.

[williamcotton]

Here's something I made about 6 months ago:

https://github.com/williamcotton/makeify

[Plugawy]

Nice one! Thanks a lot

[k__]

Same here.

It didn't just eliminate the use of gulp for much things, but also minimized the boilerplate I needed to get this stuff done in gulp.

Everything is just a "loader" away and doesn't need much configuration.

I even got rid of Bower for most libraries.