Using Gulp for Deployment

Using Gulp for Deployment

Gulp and Powershell : If you don’t have licence for TDS and need to move items to target instance using gulp and powershell 🙂

Gulp can be used to build and deploying process really quick – You can configure a number tasks and make sure the build reaches the target site instance and runs seamlessly !

1. Create a gulp-config.js to store the config json.

2. Make a text file with item path which needs to be moved to destination site instance – name the file name as SitecoreItemPath

3. Configuring Gulp task

Steps involved -> Serialize-Items >> Publish Serialized Items to Destination >> Deserialize Items >> Build and Publish Files

4. Few more powershell scripts To Serialize and Deserialize items

Steps to Serialize items:

Steps to De-Serialize items:

5. Now run the Tasks using Task Runner in Visual Studio — Tada !! your contents are moved to target instance !!