Prevent errors from breaking / crashing gulp watch

Question

I\'m running gulp 3.6.2 and have the following task that was set up from a sample online

gulp.task(\'watch\', [\'default\'], function () {
  gulp.watch([
            


        

Answer 1

This worked for me ->

var gulp = require('gulp');
var sass = require('gulp-sass');

gulp.task('sass', function(){
    setTimeout(function(){
        return gulp.src('sass/*.sass')
        .pipe(sass({indentedSyntax: true}))
        .on('error', console.error.bind(console))
        .pipe(gulp.dest('sass'));
    }, 300);
});



gulp.task('watch', function(){
    gulp.watch('sass/*.sass', ['sass']);
});

gulp.task('default', ['sass', 'watch'])

I just added the .on('error', console.error.bind(console)) line, but I had to run the gulp command as root. I'm running node gulp on a php application so I have multiple accounts on one server, which is why I ran into the issue of gulp breaking on syntax errors because I was not running gulp as root... Maybe plumber and some of the other answers here would have worked for me if I ran as root. Credit to Accio Code https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMR7hq4ABOw for the answer. He said that by handling the error it helps you to determine what line the error is on and what it is in the console, but also stops gulp from breaking on syntax error. He said it was kind of a light weight fix, so not sure if it will work for what you are looking for. Quick fix though, worth a shot. Hope this helps someone!