Gulp.js - watch and compile swig.js template files on change

Question

I'm stucked with the problem of watching my Swig.js html templates and compiling them on every change, I use Gulp.js task runner for that purpose. Here is my gulpfile.js: ``` var gulp = require('gulp'); var myth = require('gulp-myth'); var swig = require('gulp-swig'); var nodemon = require('gulp-nodemon'); gulp.task('styles', function () { gulp.src('./myth/*.css') .pipe(myth()) .pipe(gulp.dest('./client/css')); }); gulp.task('templates', function () { gulp.src('./views/*.html') .pipe(swig({ load_json: true })) .pipe(gulp.dest('./client')); }); gulp.task('server', function () { gulp.run('styles'); gulp.run('templates'); gulp.src('./server.js').pipe(nodemon()); gulp.watch('./myth/*.css', function () { gulp.run('styles'); }); gulp.watch('./views/*.html', function () { gulp.run('templates'); }); }); ``` Myth task styles runs fine - on every change of `myth/*.css` I got updated file in `client/css/`.. But task called templates gives result only once.. When I change `views/index.html` file…

Accepted Answer

Gulp-Swig has been updated to allow disabling of the cache option - as well as setting other swig defaults, as shown below.

```
gulp.task('templates', function() {
  gulp.src('./views/*.html')
    .pipe(swig({
      load_json: true,
      defaults: {
        cache: false,
        locals: {
          site_name: "My Blog"
        }
      }
    }))
    .pipe(gulp.dest('./client'));
});
```

Gulp.js - watch and compile swig.js template files on change

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