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JavaScript Gulp Basics Improving your Gulp Task Pipelines Automatically Run Tasks with Gulp’s Watch Method

lihaoquan
lihaoquan
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Posted by lihaoquan
lihaoquan
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Gulp task dependencies

Quote from this video :

"Really quick, I wanna point out here that I don't need to use a return statement. Without getting too detailed about it, just remember that if other tasks don't depend on a given task, you don't need to return anything from its callback."

If this is true, then why add return statement for "compileSass" task? Can't it run parallel with "minifyScripts" and "concatScripts" since it doesn't depend on any of them?

1 Answer

akak
akak
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akak
akak
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I'm not a gulp expert, but I would say that gulp.watch depends on compileSass. If you don't provide a return from compileSass, the gulp.watch won't know if the task ended or not and will hang endlessly waiting for sass being compiled after first time it started. I can't check that theory right now, but seems like a good candidate :)

lihaoquan
lihaoquan
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lihaoquan
lihaoquan
12,045 Points

Thanks for the suggested theory, however, I've tried "gulp watchFiles" without return statement for compileSass, it worked correctly, so I don't think that is the problem.