Build tools for Google App Engine

Question

just wondering if there are any build tools similar to Gulp for Node that I can use for Google App Engine?

Thank you

Answer 1

You can use whatever frontend build tools you'd like with App Engine. Simply use Gulp or your favorite tool to compile/copy your final frontend files into a folder that you expose as a resource directory in your app.yaml (in the case of Python, Go, or PHP) or your appengine-web.xml (in the case of Java).

Take a look at the Python docs, for example, for Using Static Files .

If you're talking about invoking App Engine's command line tools from Gulp (ie if you wanted to do something like gulp deploy and have it push your app to App Engine), you can do that via a plugin like gulp-shell .

In our codebase, we use Gulp with App Engine Java. It works great!