Long Init Time

[jonathanrdelgado]

I have about 100 files I am watching, just javascript source files and tests.

I noticed when I init gulp-watch, it takes a good thirty seconds for it to finish adding files to watch, past that, everything is blazing fast. (Mocha etc.) I'm basing my assumption that this is abnormal due to grunt-watch loading relatively fast (~1sec) under the same conditions.

Is this normal?

[dashed]

what does your gulpfile.js look like?

[jonathanrdelgado]

Thanks for the reply!

var gulp = require('gulp'),
    grep = require('gulp-grep-stream'),
    jshint = require('gulp-jshint'),
    mocha = require('gulp-mocha'),
    util = require('gulp-util'),
    watch = require('gulp-watch');

gulp.task('default', function(){

    gulp.src(['lib/**', 'tests/**'], { read: false })
        .pipe(watch({ emit: 'all' }, function(files){

            files
                .pipe(jshint({ expr: true }))
                .pipe(jshint.reporter('default'))
                .pipe(grep('**/tests/**/*.js'))
                .pipe(mocha({ reporter: 'spec' }))
                .on('error', function(){
                    util.beep();
                });

        }));

});

[floatdrop]

You should try to use glob mode, instead of piping file by file into watch:

var gulp = require('gulp'),
    grep = require('gulp-grep-stream'),
    jshint = require('gulp-jshint'),
    mocha = require('gulp-mocha'),
    util = require('gulp-util'),
    watch = require('gulp-watch');

gulp.task('default', function() {
    watch({ glob: ['lib/**', 'tests/**'], emit: 'all' }, function(files){
            files
                .pipe(jshint({ expr: true }))
                .pipe(jshint.reporter('default'))
                .pipe(grep('**/tests/**/*.js'))
                .pipe(mocha({ reporter: 'spec' }))
                .on('error', function(){
                    util.beep();
                });
        });
});

[jonathanrdelgado]

Fixed, thank you for that.

Hopefully this issue serves future users!