Gulp is only suited to problems which can be represented as streams. Certain things, like copying files from a dir to another, firing up mock server, etc, are a pain in the neck with gulp. I moved from gulp to npm scripts and never looked back.
> Many developers consider Bower to be a thing of the past that is superseded by npm. .. But if your webapp is missing this compilation step, using Bower is a big improvement over the traditional methods of managing dependencies.
Except that nowhere in the article it explains what this supposed improvement is.
Quite simply, in 2016 bower is a waste of time.
AFAIK you need to click on the links on the EchoJS page itself (not the links in the RSS feed). I haven't looked at the source code, but it looks like every few hours you get an extra point if you click on a least one link.
Annoyingly when you downvote a link you lose 5 points, no matter how much karma you have, so you will quickly lose it all if you start downvoting spam. Then you have to wait a few days until you accumulate it again.