Gulps gulp.watch not triggered for new or deleted files?

Question

The following Gulpjs task works fine when editing files in the glob match:

// watch task.
gulp.task(\'watch\', [\'build\'], function () {
    gulp.watch(src          


        

Answer 1

Both gulp.watch() and require('gulp-watch')() will trigger for new/deleted files however not if you use absolute directories. In my tests I did not use "./" for relative directories BTW.

Both won't trigger if whole directories are deleted though.

   var watch = require('gulp-watch');
   //Wont work for new files until gaze is fixed if using absolute dirs. It  won't trigger if whole directories are deleted though.
   //gulp.watch(config.localDeploy.path + '/reports/**/*', function (event) {

   //gulp.watch('src/app1/reports/**/*', function (event) {
   // console.log('*************************** Event received in gulp.watch');
   // console.log(event);
   // gulp.start('localDeployApp');
   });

   //Won't work for new files until gaze is fixed if using absolute dirs. It  won't trigger if whole directories are deleted though. See https://github.com/floatdrop/gulp-watch/issues/104
   //watch(config.localDeploy.path + '/reports/**/*', function() {

   watch('src/krfs-app/reports/**/*', function(event) {
      console.log("watch triggered");
      console.log(event);
      gulp.start('localDeployApp');
   //});