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

Ryan Doran
Ryan Doran
7,815 Points
Posted by Ryan Doran
Ryan Doran
7,815 Points

Won't create dist folder

This does everything write, and the terminal runs completely, but no 'dist' folder is created. Please help.

'use strict';

var gulp = require('gulp');
var concat = require('gulp-concat');
var uglify = require('gulp-uglify');
var rename = require('gulp-rename');
var sass = require('gulp-sass');
var maps = require('gulp-sourcemaps');
var del = require('del');

gulp.task('concatScripts', function(done) {
    return gulp.src([
        'js/jquery.js',
        'js/sticky/jquery.sticky.js',
        'js/main.js'])
    .pipe(maps.init())
    .pipe(concat('app.js'))
    .pipe(maps.write('./'))
    .pipe(gulp.dest('js'));
    done();
});

gulp.task('minifyScripts', function(done){
    gulp.src('js/app.js')
    .pipe(uglify())
    .pipe(rename('app.min.js'))
    .pipe(gulp.dest('js'))
    done();
});

gulp.task('compileSass', function(done){
    gulp.src('scss/application.scss')
    .pipe(maps.init())
    .pipe(sass())
    .pipe(maps.write('./'))
    .pipe(gulp.dest('css'))
    done();
});

gulp.task('watchSass', function(done){
    gulp.watch('scss/**/*.scss', gulp.series('compileSass'));
    done();
});

gulp.task('build', gulp.series('concatScripts', 'minifyScripts', 'compileSass'),
function(done){
    return gulp.src(['css/application.css', 'js/app.min.js', 'index.html', 'img/**', 'fonts/**', {base: './'}])
    .pipe(gulp.dest('dist'));
    done;
});

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

gulp.task('default', gulp.series('clean', 'build')
);