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Laravel elixir calling task according to watch expression

Say we have this (simplified) elixir in gulpfile.js:

mix
.bower()
.less('test.less');

The problem is then whenever any file is changed, both bower and less tasks are executed.
Is there a way to only execute less when a file in a certain watch path has changed and only execute bower when for example the bower.json file has changed?

The real problem is that with other tasks, my watch process is becoming extremely slow and bower is running everytime I update a less file (which is irrelevant).

Thanks!

Solution

  • As Jeffrey Way explained here

    This is indeed a problem with the bower task. So I'm assuming it's also the case with imagemin.

    I'll create a new task and open source it soon and update this answer.