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JavaScript

Posted by Francis N
Francis N
10,376 Points

What is the purpose of gulp serve if the dependency is watchFiles?

I noticed that in the Gulp Basics Stage 4 Video 4, we write a 'serve' task with 'watchFiles' as its dependency. What is the purpose of this? Why can't we just use 'gulp watch'?

//Watch Task
gulp.task('watchFiles', function() {
  gulp.watch('scss/**/*.scss', ['compileSass']); //(if other tasks dont depend on a given task, then you dont need to 'return' anything like on Line 13,25,33)
  gulp.watch('js/main.js', ['concatScripts']);
});

//Serve Task
gulp.task('serve', ['watchFiles']);

1 Answer

Brody Chen
Brody Chen
11,252 Points
Brody Chen
Brody Chen
11,252 Points

I think 'serve' could be a more general task than 'watchFiles', which means you can do more stuff inside 'serve'.

Although based on this video, 'serve' is actually the same as 'watchFiles'.

Hope this helps :)