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gulp browserify + reactify not creating bundle


When I run gulp I get an "updating!" and "updated!" log after saving main.js but there's no bundle ever built

gulpfile.js:

var watchify = require('watchify');
var reactify = require('reactify'); 
var concat = require('gulp-concat');
var util = require('gulp-util');

gulp.task('browserify', function() {
    var bundler = browserify({
        entries: ['./dist/main.js'], // Only need initial file, browserify finds the deps
        transform: [reactify], // We want to convert JSX to normal javascript
        debug: true, // Gives us sourcemapping
        cache: {}, packageCache: {}, fullPaths: true // Requirement of watchify
    });
    var watcher  = watchify(bundler);

    return watcher
    .on('update', function () { // When any files update
        var updateStart = Date.now();
        console.log('Updating!');
        watcher.bundle() // Create new bundle that uses the cache for high performance
        .pipe(source('main.js'))
        .on('error', util.log)
    // This is where you add uglifying etc.
        .pipe(gulp.dest('/build/'));
        console.log('Updated!', (Date.now() - updateStart) + 'ms');
    })
    .on('error', util.log)
    .bundle() // Create the initial bundle when starting the task
    .pipe(source('main.js'))
    .pipe(gulp.dest('/build/'))
    .on('error', util.log);
});

// I added this so that you see how to run two watch tasks
gulp.task('css', function () {
    gulp.watch('styles/**/*.css', function () {
        return gulp.src('styles/**/*.css')
        .pipe(concat('main.css'))
        .pipe(gulp.dest('build/'));
    });
});

// Just running the two tasks
gulp.task('default', ['browserify', 'css']);

My file structure is

/build  
/dist   
 -index.html  
 -main.js 
/node_modules  
/styles 
gulpfile.js

I am not finding any errors and I am completely lost at this point. I've tried changing directories around and reloading everything but nothing works.


Solution

  • Update lines that contain gulp.dest('/build/') to gulp.dest(__dirname + '/build/'). Currently your file located at drive_root_dir/build/main.js