How to organize full build pipeline with Gulp, Maven and Jenkins, all the way to integration tests?

Question

I have a project that has:

• JS client with somewhat interesting build process. That includes compiling CSS, catenating and minifying JS and CSS, generating and

Answer 1

In my experience, the frontend maven plugin is far and away the best plugin for this type of build/deploy process. https://github.com/eirslett/frontend-maven-plugin . This is how i use it for Grunt but it supports Gulp just as well.

    com.github.eirslett
    frontend-maven-plugin
    ...

    
    
        src/main/frontend
    

   
    grunt build
    
        grunt
    

    
    generate-resources

    
        
        build
    

One thing to be aware of it is will download node for the system it is being run on, so if you have a different OS on your build server, you'll need to make sure that is the version you have checked into version control, your local version (for me OSX) will have to be maintained local to your project.