Gulp is a toolkit that helps you automate painful or time-consuming tasks in your development workflow.

Platform-agnostic - Integrations are built into all major IDEs and people are using gulp with PHP, .NET, Node.js, Java, and other platforms. Strong Ecosystem - Use npm modules to do anything you want + over 2000 curated plugins for streaming file transformations Simple - By providing only a minimal API surface, gulp is easy to learn and simple to use

Node.js is an event-based server-side JavaScript engine.