• To install all dependencies: $ npm install;
• To start the Gulp builder, use: $ npm run dev;
• To build the project in "production" mode: $ npm run build;

• Minifies HTML in production mode;
• Removes comments from HTML in production mode;
• Compiles SCSS files, adds vendor prefixes;
• Removes comments from SCSS files;
• In production mode, minifies CSS and creates an uncompressed copy;
• Converts fonts to .ttf, and from .ttf to .woff/.woff2;
• Creates a file for font inclusion. This file is created at: src/scss/config/fonts.scss, and looks like this:

@font-face {
  font-family: Inter;
  font-display: swap;
  src: url('../fonts/Inter-Bold.woff2') format('woff2');
  font-weight: 700;
  font-style: normal;
}

If the src/scss/config - folder already contains a fonts.scss - file, then when adding new fonts, you MUST DELETE the old fonts.scss file. Don't worry, when you run the build again, Gulp will convert all new fonts and create a new fonts.scss file.

Next, what else the build can do:

• Compresses images and converts them to the .webp format, and includes them if the browser supports it;
• Copies the /static folder and its contents to the final build. This means you can place any files in this folder, and they will be added to the final build;
• With the command $ npm run svgSprite, it creates "SVG sprites";
• Before each build, it cleans the final project folder to avoid building garbage;
• With the command $ npm run zip, you can archive the final folder for the client with the project name;
• Also, for development, gulp starts a server with automatic browser window reloading when files in the project are changed;
• With the command $ npm run deployFTP, the final project is uploaded to hosting. The options for sending the project to the desired hosting are specified in the file: gulp/config/ftp.js.

• In this build, webpack handles JavaScript files;
• Supports modular script import/export;
• When importing, there's no need to write the .js file extension, and if importing from the index.js file, you don't need to specify it:

import * as flsFunctions from './modules' // './modules/index.js'

• With the help of babel, webpack allows you to write code in your favorite ES6+;
• In "production" mode, during the final build, JS files are minified, and unnecessary comments are removed.

An added bonus is the gh-pages plugin for deploying the /dist folder to a separate GitHub branch, to beautifully showcase your project on GitHub Pages. For this, specify the link to your gh-pages in the homepage field in package.json:

"homepage": "https://{UserName}.github.io/{NameRepo}",

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