Update gulp-sass

[mitchhentges]

The super-out-of-date gulp-sass that we were using doesn't work on Linux with NodeJS 8.

Soon we're going to need to change from gulp-sass (now unmaintained) to node-sass with a wrapper (does gulp's vinyl cover that?)

[nerdbeere]

We probably could get rid of gulp altogether :)

[mitchhentges]

Dang, a lot of hate on the gulp trian 😆 Tomi and I were recently talking about using Gulp vs webpack - there's an awesome ecosystem for building electron apps with Webpack now, so there'd be a large reduction in configuration - but, our current gulp config is still faster than what's been pulled off with webpack so far 😄

Might be time to modernize so we get those juicy new webpack transform features

[nerdbeere]

Don't get me wrong, I hate webpack even more than gulp. 😆
I'm a fan of simple tooling… still using browserify a lot although it's lacking a lot of features.

Maybe an interesting alternative to webpack: https://parceljs.org/
Another lightweight alternative: https://rollupjs.org/

I think it's worth investing some time in simple and robust tooling.

[tomitm]

@nerdbeere Take a look at the electron-webpack branch. I think you might enjoy how simple it is. Also, I think this setup is as fast or faster than our current gulp setup now, keeping in mind it's also doing more (such as async component split/loading).

Rollup is designed for libraries, so it's not entirely suited for our use case as an application. I saw Parcel come out yesterday, so I'd still wait on that to mature a bit. webpack also just dropped an v4 alpha which is claiming even smaller bundle sizes because of their work on tree shaking, so the benefit of hopping on the webpack 🚆 is bundle sizes trend downwards each release.