How to clean a project correctly with gulp?

Question

On the gulp page there is the following example:

gulp.task(\'clean\', function(cb) {
  // You can use multiple globbing patterns as you would with `gulp.src`         


        

Answer 1

Use del.sync. It completes the del and then returns from the task

gulp.task('clean', function () {
    return $.del.sync([path.join(conf.paths.dist, '/**/*')]);
});

and be sure clean is the first task in a list of tasks. For example,

gulp.task('build', ['clean', 'inject', 'partials'], function ()  {
    //....
}

@Ben i liked the way you have separated clean:css clean:js tasks. That's a great tip