In a previous post I showed how to use Gulp.js to concatenate and minify many css files into one. Now we want to satisfy other two requirements of our workflow: cache bust and automation.

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When I was a novice CSS programmer, I wrote all my code in a single css file, just a style after the other. I knew that HTTP works better with a single big file instead of multiple little ones.

But  soon this file became very large and difficult to update, my system was not modular and scalable.

Then I read SMACSS and it changed the way I architect my CSS source code.

But the modularization of CSS yet caused the creation of multiple files, instead of a big one, with all its implications. So I began to search a tool to concatenate and optimize my files in a single one.

Welcome Gulp.js.

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