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Ibrahim Hossain
Ibrahim Hossain

Reputation: 71

Gulp hangs after executing tasks

I'm figuring out how gulp is working; it looks like the gulp tasks are being executed, but then it hangs.

Environment:

node version v14.17.0.

gulp:

CLI version: 2.3.0 Local version: 4.0.2


const babel = require("gulp-babel");

task("js",()=>{
    return src("src/*.js").pipe(babel()).pipe(dest("dist/js"));
})
task("moveHTML",()=>{
    return src("src/*.html").pipe(dest("dist"));
});
task("watch",()=>{
    watch("src/*.js",series("js"));
});
task("default",series('moveHTML','js','watch'));

There is no error here, but the execution is hanging. below is the node terminal message:


[10:30:29] Starting 'default'...

[10:30:29] Starting 'moveHTML'...

[10:30:29] Finished 'moveHTML' after 85 ms

[10:30:29] Starting 'js'...

[10:30:32] Finished 'js' after 3.22 s

[10:30:32] Starting 'watch'...

Upvotes: 1

Views: 636

Answers (1)

morganney
morganney

Reputation: 13580

The process persists because you are calling gulp.watch which returns an instance of chokidar and by default keeps the node process running.

If you want to stop the node process use the persistent option and set it to false.

watch("src/*.js", { persistent: false }, series("js"));

However, the gulp docs suggest not to do this.

Upvotes: 2

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