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gulp.watch not working in Gulp 4.0.0

See original GitHub issue

What were you expecting to happen?

I have this simple gulp file

gulp.task('watch', () => {
  gulp.watch('path/to/file.scss')
    .on('change', gulp.series('sass'));
})

I run gulp watch then save file.scss and It should run the 'sass' task.

What actually happened?

I save file.scss and nothing happens

What version of gulp are you using?

Gulp 4.0.0

What versions of npm and node are you using? npm: 5.5.1 node: 6.12.0

Issue Analytics

State:
Created 6 years ago
Reactions:5
Comments:5 (1 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

1reaction

doowbcommented, Jan 10, 2018

Same as #2093. You shouldn’t use the path methods on glob patterns.

0reactions

rohaanuvcommented, Aug 12, 2020

Still, my side gulp watch is not running it shows command not found

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