Gulp.js stops compiling LESS when watched after there has been an error in the LESS files

Question

I\'m having a problem with gulp. I run gulp-watch along with gulp-less and gulp-clean. Everything is running perfectly.

Answer 1

I have just set this up for my own personal project. According to the Gulp docs, you can just use gulp.watch:

gulp.task('watch', function() {
    gulp.watch('src/main/webapp/styles/**/*.{less, css}', ['less'])
        .on('error', gutil.log);
});

EDIT: If this doesn't help, change your less task to:

gulp.task('less', function() {
    return gulp.src(['src/main/webapp/styles/main.less'], {base: 'src/main/webapp/styles/'})
    .pipe(less())
    .on('error', function (err) {
        gutil.log(err);
        this.emit('end');
    })
    .pipe(gulp.dest('src/main/webapp/styles/build'))
    .on('error', gutil.log);
});

Adapted from this comment.