How to automate front-end automation?

Question

npm

If I type something up, I want everything to be set up in the same manner. I used to do everything the old fashioned way, now I'm very used to Gulp and deal with Bower. But if even for the smallest work (for example, to practice creating a hover effect, or try out another jquery plugin) to install all the dependencies and components, then you also need to spend a lot of time.
At the moment, for all sorts of experiments, I just keep the temp folder on duty in which Gulp is configured, every time I just copy the necessary html / scss / js files into it, and after the work is completed, I move the finished app folder away. But it often happens that one is not completed, the second needs to be started, and the temp folder is busy.
Are there ways to keep installed gulp etc. and then just throw it into the project folder, and not vice versa, as I'm doing now?

Answer 1

I connect the node_modules folder with a symlink to the project, I
initialize the project itself with a yo generator for a
couple of minutes and you're done.