Gulp error: watch task has to be a function

Question

Here is my gulpfile:

// Modules & Plugins
var gulp = require(\'gulp\');
var concat = require(\'gulp-concat\');
var myth = require(\'gulp-myth\');
var ugl         


        

Answer 1

In gulp 3.x you could just pass the name of a task to gulp.watch() like this:

gulp.task('watch', function() {
  gulp.watch('app/css/*.css', ['styles']);
  gulp.watch('app/js/*.js', ['scripts']);
  gulp.watch('app/img/*', ['images']);
});

In gulp 4.x this is no longer the case. You have to pass a function. The customary way of doing this in gulp 4.x is to pass a gulp.series() invocation with only one task name. This returns a function that only executes the specified task:

gulp.task('watch', function() {
  gulp.watch('app/css/*.css', gulp.series('styles'));
  gulp.watch('app/js/*.js', gulp.series('scripts'));
  gulp.watch('app/img/*', gulp.series('images'));
});