Gulp watch sass causes terminal to hang - is that the point?

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So I just got my hands dirty with Gulp. I have never worked with Grunt, but it seems that Gulp is the new big thing. Everything seems to work fine. I have successfully compiled SCSS into CSS with the following gulpfile.js: ``` // Include gulp var gulp = require('gulp'); // Include Our Plugins var sass = require('gulp-sass'); var rename = require('gulp-rename'); // Compile Our Sass gulp.task('sass', function() { return gulp.src('./scss/*.scss') .pipe(sass()) .pipe(gulp.dest('./css')); }); // Rerun the task when a file changes gulp.task('watch', function () { gulp.watch('scss/**/*.scss', ['sass']); }); // Default Task gulp.task('default', ['sass', 'watch']); ``` Thing is: When I run Gulp default in the terminal it starts the script, but never ends it. I'm assuming this is the point, that in order for Gulp to watch my files - it has to keep running. It's on standby with this: ``` [gulp] Running 'sass'... [gulp] Finished 'sass' in 8.47 ms ``` If that's the case - how do I stop it from run…

Accepted Answer

gulp watch is designed to watch the file changes, it acts as a running process.

The README shows an example of its usage: gulp-watch

The command: Ctrl+C will stop the process.

Once started modifying any file in the `watch` directive will trigger the action in the reload. You currently do not have any action for your watch, this will trigger a action when the sass files change:

```
gulp.watch('./scss/**/*.scss', ['sass']);
```

Gulp watch sass causes terminal to hang - is that the point?

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