Streamline advzip usage in your gulp build

A quick tip: if you use advzip in your build pipeline, you can now streamline it by using the new gulp-advzip plugin.

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const zip = require('gulp-zip');
const advzip = require('gulp-advzip');

gulp.task('zip', () => {
    return gulp.src(['my files...'])
        .pipe(zip('archive.zip'))
        .pipe(advzip())
        .pipe(gulp.dest('out'));
});

Installing gulp-advzip in your project will automatically download or build an appropriate version of the advzip binary for you, similar to the imagemin-advpng package, so there’s no need to worry about the usual installation steps.