Running a shell command from gulp

Question

I would like to run a shell command from gulp, using gulp-shell. I see the following idiom being used the gulpfile.

Is this the idiomatic way to run a c

Answer 1

With gulp 4 your tasks can directly return a child process to signal task completion:

'use strict';

var cp = require('child_process');
var gulp = require('gulp');

gulp.task('reset', function() {
  return cp.execFile('git checkout -- .');
});

gulp-v4-running-shell-commands.md