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How to set up Gulp with an ExpressionEngine project

I freaking love working with technologies like Grunt and Gulp, and wanted to share how to get my current EE front-end workflow set up. With a few tweaks, this can also be used with virtually any other sites (I've used it with Laravel, static sites, Craft, etc).

Install Node.js

If Node is not yet installed on the machine, it will need to be installed

Install Gulp (if needed)

Better local require() paths for Node.js

Problem

When the directory structure of your Node.js application (not library!) has some depth, you end up with a lot of annoying relative paths in your require calls like:

const Article = require('../../../../app/models/article');

Those suck for maintenance and they're ugly.

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	function lower_bound(nums, target) {
	let lo = 0, hi = nums.length;

	while (lo < hi) {
	const mid = lo + Math.floor((hi - lo) / 2);

	if (nums[mid] >= target) {
	hi = mid;
	} else {

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	(function addXhrProgressEvent($) {
	var originalXhr = $.ajaxSettings.xhr;
	$.ajaxSetup({
	progress: function() { console.log("standard progress callback"); },
	xhr: function() {
	var req = originalXhr(), that = this;
	if (req) {
	if (typeof req.addEventListener == "function") {
	req.addEventListener("progress", function(evt) {
	that.progress(evt);

	// find out what prefix this browser supports.

	// usage: gimmePrefix('transform') // 'WebkitTransform'
	// returns false if unsupported.

	function gimmePrefix(prop){
	var prefixes = ['Moz','Khtml','Webkit','O','ms'],
	elem = document.createElement('div'),
	upper = prop.charAt(0).toUpperCase() + prop.slice(1);