gulp watch terminates immediately

Question

I have a very minimal gulpfile as follows, with a watch task registered:

var gulp = require(\"gulp\");
var jshint = require(\"gulp-jshint\");

gulp.task(\"lint\"         


        

Answer 1

To add to OverZealous' answer which is correct.

gulp.watch now allows you to pass a string array as the callback so you can have two separate tasks. For example, hint:watch and 'hint'. You can then do something like the following.

gulp.task('hint', function(event){
    return gulp.src(sources.hint)
        .pipe(plumber())
        .pipe(hint())
        .pipe(jshint.reporter("default"));
})
gulp.task('hint:watch', function(event) {
   gulp.watch(sources.hint, ['hint']);
})

This is only an example though and ideally you'd define this to run on say a concatted dist file.