I keep running into issues on windows using tools like Gulp or Grunt. The issues I'm running up against is long file names and deep node_module folders which end up causing errors like "file path too long". Also, if i end up moving or deleting one of these projects after running "npm install" the amount of time it takes is incredible due to the amount of files in the node_modules folder. I've also had to use robocopy to remove the long file names in some cases. Maybe I'm doing it all wrong...<p>The scenario I'm up against is that we don't use a mainstream language, so no tooling really exists. I'm trying to bolt on a solution(think asset pipeline) and seemed like Gulp would fit the bill. I'm able to get Gulp to do what I want I'm just not that pleased with the amount of steps needed to get to that point and the pain associated with moving/deleting projects.<p>What I'm wondering if there is a way to take your current gulp build process and convert it to a binary, or compile it to a single .js file that you could script against? Or if there are binaries out there that can do this sort of thing. My starting point with this was the gulp-webapp template.<p>Any ideas, thoughts, would be awesome!