Nicely throwing an error in gulp task

Question

I am creating a gulp task which might fail under certain circumstances.

gulp.task(\'favicon\', function () {
  try {
    require(\'child_process\').execSync(         


        

Answer 1

From what I've seen its not great to throw an error from gulp. But I found this blog entry that I used to work for me.

http://gotofritz.net/blog/geekery/how-to-generate-error-in-gulp-task/

Edit: gulp-util has been deprecated. Instead, use the plugin-error package.

My Example:

var gulp = require('gulp');
var error = require('plugin-error');
gulp.task('deploy', function(cb) {
  if(typeof(specialId) === 'undefined') {
    var err = new PluginError({
      plugin: 'deploy',
      message: 'specialId is empty.'
    });
  }
}