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Reputation: 16801

Gulp not creating any files

I created a project for becoming familiar with build tools. My folder structure for this project looks like so:

+ my-project
|-- + sources
|------ index.html
|-- + www
|-- gulpfile.js

And the contents of glupfile.js are:

var gulp = require('gulp');

gulp.task('default', function() {
    gulp.src('sources/index.html')
    .pipe(gulp.dest('www/index.html'));
});

For simplicity's sake I chmod'd everything in this folder (and all parent folders) to 777 - so there's no issue of file permissions.

Yet when I run gulp, I get the following output:

user@server:~/my-project# gulp
[00:05:09] Using gulpfile ~/my-project/gulpfile.js
[00:05:09] Starting 'default'...
[00:05:09] Finished 'default' after 11 ms

and absolutely no files are created. The www folder remains barren.

What am I doing wrong?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 7132

Answers (1)

Lakmal Caldera
Lakmal Caldera

Reputation: 1031

Leave out the index.html. You should always pipe your files into a folder(desc) and not to another file(index.html)

var gulp = require('gulp');

gulp.task('default', function() {
gulp.src('sources/index.html')
.pipe(gulp.dest('www'));
});

Upvotes: 4

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