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

You could simply do this:

const { spawn } = require('child_process');
const gulp = require('gulp');

gulp.task('list', function() {
    const cmd = spawn('ls');
    cmd.stdout.on('data', (data) => {
        console.log(`stdout: ${data}`);
    });
    return cmd;
});