Laravel 5.1 front-end preferences

Yes, you can. I don't use gulp.

composer.json does not have gulp as a dependency. So, technically, it is not a dependency for laravel 5.1.

If I'm not mistaken, it is only added to make elixir easier to use which makes minifying css and js easier.

Here is what I'm doing in my main default template.

<head>

	<meta charset="utf-8">
	<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge,chrome=1">
	<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">

	<meta name="author" content="{{ Config::get('core.author') }}" />
	<meta name="keywords" content="{{ Config::get('core.keywords') }}" />
	<meta name="description" content="{{ Config::get('core.description') }}" />

	<title>
		@section('title')
			{{ Config::get('core.title') }}
		@show
	</title>

	<link rel="shortcut icon" href="{{ asset('ico/favicon.png') }}">
	<link rel="icon" href="{{ asset('favicon.ico') }}">
	<link rel="apple-touch-icon-precomposed" sizes="57x57" href="{{ asset('ico/apple-touch-icon-57-precomposed.png') }}">
	<link rel="apple-touch-icon-precomposed" sizes="72x72" href="{{ asset('ico/apple-touch-icon-72-precomposed.png') }}">
	<link rel="apple-touch-icon-precomposed" sizes="144x144" href="{{ asset('ico/apple-touch-icon-144-precomposed.png') }}">

<!-- ------------------------------------------ Google Fonts ------------------------------------------ -->
<!--
	<link href='http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Roboto+Slab:400,700,300' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'>
	<link href='http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Open+Sans:300,400,700' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'>
-->

<!-- ------------------------------------------ CSS stylesheets ------------------------------------------ -->

	<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="{{ asset('assets/vendors/bootstrap-3.3.5-dist/css/bootstrap.min.css') }}">
	<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="{{ asset('assets/vendors/font-awesome-4.3.0/css/font-awesome.css') }}">

<!--
	<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="{{ asset('assets/vendors/bootstrap-3.3.5-dist/css/bootstrap-theme.min.css') }}">
-->

	<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="{{ asset('assets/vendors/illuminate3/css/standard.css') }}">
	<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="{{ asset('assets/css/main.css') }}">

<!-- ------------------------------------------ app loaded CSS stylesheets ------------------------------------------ -->
	@yield('styles')

<!-- ------------------------------------------ head loaded js ------------------------------------------ -->
	<script type="text/javascript" src="{{ asset('assets/vendors/jquery/modernizr-2.6.2-respond-1.1.0.min.js') }}"></script>

</head>

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