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nathanziarek
nathanziarek

Reputation: 619

When running a Gulp task, it doesn't seem to recognize files it created

I have two tasks in my Gulp file:

  1. default Uses LESS to merge a bunch of files together with comments and sourcemapping.
  2. prepare Grabs the CSS file generated by #1 and cleans / compresses it.

I've told Gulp that task #2 requires task #1.

When I run task #2, the files are created for task #1, but the files that should be created for task #2 are not. If I run task #2 again, then the files for task #2 are created.

I'm thinking there's some sort of cache Gulp is using, and since the files didn't exist when Gulp first ran, it isn't finding them and therefore not doing anything with them.

I've tried searching around to no avail. Any thoughts or suggestions would be great!

var gulp = require('gulp'),
    less = require('gulp-less'),
    csso = require('gulp-csso');

gulp.task( 'default', ['styles-dev'], function() {} );
gulp.task( 'prepare', ['minify-css'], function() {} )

gulp.task('styles-dev', function() {
  gulp
    .src("source/styles/global*.less")
    .pipe( less({
      sourceMap: true
    }) )
    .pipe( gulp.dest("build/local/styles") )
});

gulp.task('minify-css', ['styles-dev'], function() {
  gulp.src('build/local/styles/*.css')
    .pipe(csso())
    .pipe(gulp.dest('build/pre/styles'))
});

Upvotes: 0

Views: 439

Answers (2)

robrich
robrich

Reputation: 13205

var gulp = require('gulp'),
    less = require('gulp-less'),
    csso = require('gulp-csso');

gulp.task( 'default', ['css']);

gulp.task('css', function() {
  return gulp.src("source/styles/global*.less")
    .pipe( less({
      sourceMap: true
    }) )
    .pipe(gulp.dest("build/local/styles"))
    .pipe(csso())
    .pipe(gulp.dest('build/pre/styles'));
});

Upvotes: 0

nathanziarek
nathanziarek

Reputation: 619

gulp.task('styles-dev', function() {
  return gulp
    .src("source/styles/global*.less")
    .pipe( less({
      sourceMap: true
    }) )
    .pipe( gulp.dest("build/local/styles") )
});

Looks like I need to return the stream as a "hint" that the task is finished. It's amazing how asking a question will help you find the answer...

Upvotes: 1

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