I am a beginner to Javascript and Gulp. Am learning this based on a udemy course in which Gulp 3 is being used, and I've been looking at docs to convert the code to Gulp 4. It's been fun so far since I am learning more when I am doing the conversions myself, but am stuck on this one. Wonder if you guys can offer some advice.
Issue: When I split the gulpfile.js into separate files to organise my files better, it starts throwing errors. Code below.
styles.js
var gulp = require('gulp'),
postcss = require('gulp-postcss'),
autoprefixer = require('autoprefixer'),
cssvars = require('postcss-simple-vars'),
nested = require('postcss-nested'),
cssImport = require('postcss-import');
function styles(cb) {
return gulp.src('./app/assets/styles/styles.css')
.pipe(postcss([cssImport, cssvars, nested, autoprefixer]))
.pipe(gulp.dest('./app/temp/styles'));
cb();
}
exports.styles = styles;
watch.js
var gulp = require('gulp'),
browserSync = require('browser-sync').create();
function cssInject(cb) {
return gulp.src('./app/temp/styles/styles.css')
.pipe(browserSync.stream());
cb();
}
function browserSyncReload(cb) {
browserSync.reload();
cb();
}
function watch(cb) {
browserSync.init({
notify: false,
server: {
baseDir: "app"
}
});
watch('./app/index.html', browserSyncReload);
watch('./app/assets/styles/styles.css', gulp.series(cssInject, styles));
cb();
}
exports.browserSyncReload = browserSyncReload;
exports.watch = watch;
gulpfile.js
var stylesTasks = require('./gulp/tasks/styles.js'),
watchTasks = require('./gulp/tasks/watch.js');
exports.watch = watchTasks.watch;
exports.styles = stylesTasks.styles;
exports.browserSyncReload = watchTasks.browserSyncReload;
When I run "gulp watch", this is what I get.
error
$ gulp watch
[21:14:28] Using gulpfile ~/Projects/travel-site/gulpfile.js
[21:14:28] Starting 'watch'...
internal/async_hooks.js:195
function emitInitNative(asyncId, type, triggerAsyncId, resource) { ^
RangeError: Maximum call stack size exceeded
(Use `node --trace-uncaught ...` to show where the exception was thrown)
I found another post with almost identical code, but with a different error - which happened to be one of the errors i was getting earlier as well, and have followed the solution mentioned in that post - and that's when I get this error. Here's the link to the post.
Any help is much appreciated. Thanks for your time.
Answering my own question feels wierd, but I found the solution after playing with it for couple of days. See below.
I needed to import styles into watch.js, and not gulpfile.js. That was my first mistake. To do this, I added the below line to watch.js
var styles = require('./styles').styles;
Then my gulpfile.js only needed two lines
gulpfile.js
var watchTask = require('./gulp/tasks/watch').watch;
exports.default = watchTask;
I also removed the variable gulp, instead created variables for src and dest. So, the rest of the code looked like below.
styles.js
var {src, dest} = require('gulp'),
postcss = require('gulp-postcss'),
autoprefixer = require('autoprefixer'),
cssvars = require('postcss-simple-vars'),
nested = require('postcss-nested'),
cssImport = require('postcss-import');
const styles = function (cb) {
return src('./app/assets/styles/styles.css')
.pipe(postcss([cssImport, cssvars, nested, autoprefixer]))
.pipe(dest('./app/temp/styles'));
cb();
}
exports.styles = styles;
watch.js
var styles = require('./styles').styles;
var {src, series, watch} = require('gulp'),
browserSync = require('browser-sync').create();
const cssInject = function (cb) {
return src('./app/temp/styles/styles.css')
.pipe(browserSync.stream());
cb();
}
const reload = function (cb) {
browserSync.reload();
cb();
}
const watchTask = function (cb) {
browserSync.init({
notify: false,
server: {
baseDir: "app"
}
});
watch('./app/index.html', reload);
watch('./app/assets/styles/styles.css', series(cssInject, styles));
cb();
}
exports.watch = watchTask;
Hence resolved! hope this helps someone else.