First, you must download and install node.js. NPM stands for node packaged modules and is a way to manage development dependencies through Node.js.

Download the Node.js source code or a pre-built installer for your platform, and start developing, you can download it from nodejs.org

You can check it in your terminal window using these commands node --version and npm --version.

GulpJS is a JavaScipt task runner. In one word: automation. The less work you have to do when performing repetitive tasks like minification, compilation, unit testing, linting, etc...

Modern Build System use the gulp task to generate the different templates.

From the command line:

• Install gulp globally with npm install gulp-cli -g
• To install node packages, navigate to the root modern-admin/directory, make sure to rename default package.json file to package.grunt.json and rename package.gulp.json file to package.json file. Then run npm install. NPM use the package.json file and automatically install the required local dependencies listed in it.

gulpfile.js file contain all the predefined task. Below template contain all the gulp task and usage.

You can modify or add your task in gulpfile.js file.

To generate/watch specific template/file you need to run the gulp template command.

Below is the generic command to generate/watch any template.

Modern build system provides built in 7 different types of templates 2 horizontal and 5 vertical templates as shown in above folder structure.

Blow table contain all template task and text direction wise gulp commands.