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Steven Seybold
Steven Seybold
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Posted by Steven Seybold
Steven Seybold
1,194 Points

When I run 'gulp serve' I get - Task 'serve' is not in your gulpfile. I thought that was a built in function, no?

I even deleted the node_modules folder and did 'npm install' again to ensure all was installed correctly.

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Iain Simmons
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Iain Simmons
Treehouse Moderator 32,289 Points
Iain Simmons
Iain Simmons
Treehouse Moderator 32,289 Points

Nope, just the default task can be run with just the gulp command. Everything else is just the task name after gulp, so gulp serve would still require a serve task to exist.

Another common thing to do is to create multiple tasks and then put them as dependencies for the default task so it will run them all for you with just the gulp command.