Gulp 4: gulp.task('default', 'build') should be same as gulp.task('default', gulp.series('build'))

Loving the new gulp.series() and gulp.parallel() flow, but I feel it shouldn’t be necessary to type:

gulp.task('default', gulp.series('build'))

When the following would communicate the intent even more clearly, and is less code:

gulp.task('default', 'build')

The latter currently fails with AssertionError: Task function must be specified.

See also https://github.com/gulpjs/gulp/issues/771.

[flying-sheep]

another alternative would be to disallow all this and just do:

let build = gulp.series(clean, gulp.parallel(scripts, images))
let default = build

gulp.task(build)
gulp.task(clean)
gulp.task(watch)
gulp.task(default)

[flying-sheep]

as it is now, i just ignore gulp.task as well as the possibility of referring to tasks by name:

instead i use export function release() { ... } to define tasks and always pass the functions directly