nah… I never do what’s suggested if it doesn’t make sense.
It’s been quite some time… into music production now. I just ended all my nightmares by getting rid of Kunaki.
THEY are not “A MACHINE” but a small group of humans (from Brooklyn living in Nevada) getting rich on quoting low prices for CDs, etc., but in reality living ‘high-off-the-hog’ by charging exorbitant over-priced (unrealistic) fees for shipping… as is everyone else, I might add. Only they are saying they are a machine to try and fully avoid customer service.
They aren’t a machine and they don’t even tell the truth! I won’t say everything, but bad-bad Christmas CD experience last year that I will never repeat. They said a CD had shipped (it was personalized)… so I ordered one for my aunt [one day after the first had shipped!]. These two personalized CD covers were swapped, along with 14 others in separate orders… nuff said – I finally ditched them and do all my own printing and assembly (cds and jackets), burning etc., too.
Back on topic: I wrote a piece of code for a complete setup of the VS-Code BSS environment. I created a folder on my desktop “for Schpengle” and placed this compiled setup exe inside it and ran it. It installed everything, brought up VS Code editor and ran Gulp with all dependencies, etc., yada-yada.
The code is 153 KB and it runs on windows, but all it does is write 3 files: index.html, styles.scss, and gulpfile.js, and then writes a batch file: temp.bat and runs/deletes it and writes a output a log file, so in reality you really don’t even need the program.
I told the program to create and use “Schpengle”, and so it created the folder _proj-Schpengle. After completion, inside this folder is 2 folders: node_modules (everything npm/node), and src (what we care about [really]).
There are also 3 files inside “for Schpengle” which are: gulpfile.js, package.json, and package-lock.json. So, nooo, not a big deal, really. The node_modules size is 157 MB, 16994 Files, 2376 Folders.
Everything else (not npm/node): 10 Files, 5 Folders, 684 KB. You only need to move the “src” folder in and out of this project folder. Open VSCode to this project folder (again), and then run Gulp in the terminal window each time you switch projects (which can be rather fast).
Just for grins I compressed everything… the entire “for Schpengle” folder. Using the maximum compression setting, it compresses down to 11.2 MB using WinRAR v5.60. It’s free to all to unrar/decompress without a license.