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JavaScript Gulp Basics Improving your Gulp Task Pipelines The Build and Development Pipeline

Scott Vrable
Scott Vrable
5,248 Points
Posted by Scott Vrable
Scott Vrable
5,248 Points

Shouldn't we return the results of the del task so the default task knows when the cleaning process is complete?

Like this:

gulp.task("clean", function() { return del(["dist", "css/application.css*", "js/app*.js*"]); });

2 Answers

Benjamin Boruff
Benjamin Boruff
11,663 Points
Benjamin Boruff
Benjamin Boruff
11,663 Points

It certainly doesn't hurt to do so. Works fine with or without. It may be the case that gulp.start waits despite no explicit return from del. It's hard to say since gulp.start is undocumented and deprecated.