Gulp or IDEA File Watcher?

Question

IntelliJ IDEA

In general, I'm a little confused.
Decided to explore frontend build systems. Figured out more or less with Gulp, not bad in general.
But then I saw that it is possible to do something like gulp watch using PHPStorm / IDEA itself, using FileWatcher.
And so the question. If for large projects the use of gulp is mandatory (buildserver, etc.), then for small ones, with manual deployment, what to do? Use filewatcher or gulp (and have nodejs as a dependency) or be tied to an ide and compile assets from it before deploying, or even store them in the repository assembled?
What about small and medium projects in general? It's hard to figure everything out though :)

Answer 1

If you have to climb in the code with another editor (for example, I still have Sublime as the main one, and Storm is more for debugging PHP), then it’s better to completely forget about Storm’s Watchers. The same Sublime, in my opinion, is much better at preparing LESS, SCSS, SVGO, etc. The node is used in any case, whatever one may say, and it's a matter of taste how to run the assembly: Gulp, Sublime (especially true for small projects), Storm or another IDE.