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Jessie Emerson
Jessie Emerson

Reputation: 743

Task "default" is not in your gulpfile

I run gulp in my console I got this error:

Task 'default' is not in your gulpfile

My gulpfile looks just fine:

var gulp = require('gulp'),
    LiveServer = require('gulp-live-server'),
    browserSync = require('browser-sync');

gulp.task('live-server', function () {
    var server = new LiveServer('server/main.js');
    server.start();
});

gulp.task('serve', ['live-server'], function () {
    browserSync.init(null, {
        proxy: "http://localhost:3000",
        port: 9001
    });
});

Upvotes: 22

Views: 24124

Answers (5)

Joe Shakely
Joe Shakely

Reputation: 913

Here was mine before...

'use strict';

var gulp = require('gulp');
var concat = require('gulp-concat');
var cssmin = require('gulp-cssmin');
var uglify = require('gulp-uglify');
var merge = require('merge-stream');
var bundleConfig = require('./bundleconfig.json');

const REGEX = {
    css: /\.css$/,
    js: /\.js$/
};

gulp.task('min:js', async function () {
    merge(getBundles(REGEX.js).map(bundle => {
        return gulp.src(bundle.inputFiles, { base: '.' })
            .pipe(concat(bundle.outputFileName))
            .pipe(uglify())
            .pipe(gulp.dest('.'));
    }))
});

gulp.task('min:css', async function () {
    merge(getBundles(REGEX.css).map(bundle => {
        return gulp.src(bundle.inputFiles, { base: '.' })
            .pipe(concat(bundle.outputFileName))
            .pipe(cssmin())
            .pipe(gulp.dest('.'));
    }))
});

const getBundles = (regexPattern) => {
    return bundleConfig.filter(bundle => {
        return regexPattern.test(bundle.outputFileName);
    });
};

gulp.task('minify', gulp.series(['min:js', 'min:css']));

And then after, literally just had to change the last line to 'default' smh

'use strict';

var gulp = require('gulp');
var concat = require('gulp-concat');
var cssmin = require('gulp-cssmin');
var uglify = require('gulp-uglify');
var merge = require('merge-stream');
var bundleConfig = require('./bundleconfig.json');

const REGEX = {
    css: /\.css$/,
    js: /\.js$/
};

gulp.task('min:js', async function () {
    merge(getBundles(REGEX.js).map(bundle => {
        return gulp.src(bundle.inputFiles, { base: '.' })
            .pipe(concat(bundle.outputFileName))
            .pipe(uglify())
            .pipe(gulp.dest('.'));
    }))
});

gulp.task('min:css', async function () {
    merge(getBundles(REGEX.css).map(bundle => {
        return gulp.src(bundle.inputFiles, { base: '.' })
            .pipe(concat(bundle.outputFileName))
            .pipe(cssmin())
            .pipe(gulp.dest('.'));
    }))
});

const getBundles = (regexPattern) => {
    return bundleConfig.filter(bundle => {
        return regexPattern.test(bundle.outputFileName);
    });
};

gulp.task('default', gulp.series(['min:js', 'min:css']));

Upvotes: 0

Niveditha Karmegam
Niveditha Karmegam

Reputation: 740

I had a similar issue, and this is my gulp file

My gulp file

Instead of having a 'default' task, what i do is directly calling the 'serve' task.

In cmd -> gulp serve

By directly calling the serve, it would call the browser-sync task for me.

Hope this would be helpful for someone :)

Upvotes: 1

SnailCrusher
SnailCrusher

Reputation: 1424

When you just run gulp in your console it will look for a default task to run. You only defined live-server and serve as tasks.

To solve define a default task, you can add the task you actually want to run as the dependency like so:

gulp.task( 'default', [ 'serve' ] )

Now if you run gulp it will run the default task which in turn runs the serve task. Alternatively you can just run gulp serve and it will work as well.

Upvotes: 30

Nhan
Nhan

Reputation: 3905

Create a default task and add tasks you would like to run by default:

gulp.task("default", function () {
  gulp.start("serve");
});

Upvotes: 2

xxCodexx
xxCodexx

Reputation: 438

Please include this in your gulp file.

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

Hope this might help.

Upvotes: 4

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