How to work with Gulp in Visual Studio Code?

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JavaScript

Hello!
I downloaded the starter theme for WordPress, started working and got a little screwed up, because it uses SASS, SCSS with Gulp.JS. Since I have never worked with these features, it was useful to look at how and what to use, if I knew about scss, then with glup I fell into a stupor. The topic author attached instructions on how to do it https://github.com/holger1411/understrap-child , following it I installed node js with npm, installed sass and less modules.
I work with the project on the server through the ftp-simple plugin for Visual Studio Code.

Initially , glup.js was nested in the understrap-child folder , but then I tinkered with it and copied it to the studio folder, configured json to run the watch command, but nothing (
gulp.js

// Defining base pathes
var basePaths = {
    bower: './bower_components/',
    node: './node_modules/',
    dev: './src/'
};

// browser-sync watched files
// automatically reloads the page when files changed
/*var browserSyncWatchFiles = [
    './css/*.min.css',
    './js/*.min.js',
    './*.php'
];*/
// browser-sync options
// see: https://www.browsersync.io/docs/options/
/*var browserSyncOptions = {
    proxy: "localhost/understrap/",
    notify: false
};*/

// Defining requirements
var gulp = require('gulp');
var plumber = require('gulp-plumber');
var sass = require('gulp-sass');
var watch = require('gulp-watch');
var cssnano = require('gulp-cssnano');
var rename = require('gulp-rename');
var concat = require('gulp-concat');
var uglify = require('gulp-uglify');
var merge2 = require('merge2');
var ignore = require('gulp-ignore');
var rimraf = require('gulp-rimraf');
var clone = require('gulp-clone');
var merge = require('gulp-merge');
var sourcemaps = require('gulp-sourcemaps');
var browserSync = require('browser-sync').create();
var del = require('del');

// Run:
// gulp sass + cssnano + rename
// Prepare the min.css for production (with 2 pipes to be sure that "child-theme.css" == "child-theme.min.css")
gulp.task('scss-for-prod', function() {
    var source =  gulp.src('./sass/*.scss')
        .pipe(plumber())
        .pipe(sourcemaps.init({loadMaps: true}))
        .pipe(sass());

    var pipe1 = source.pipe(clone())
        .pipe(sourcemaps.write(undefined, { sourceRoot: null }))
        .pipe(gulp.dest('./css'))
        .pipe(rename('custom-editor-style.css'))
        .pipe(gulp.dest('./css'));

    var pipe2 = source.pipe(clone())
        .pipe(cssnano())
        .pipe(rename({suffix: '.min'}))
        .pipe(gulp.dest('./css'));

    return merge(pipe1, pipe2);
});


// Run:
// gulp sourcemaps + sass + reload(browserSync)
// Prepare the child-theme.css for the development environment
gulp.task('scss-for-dev', function() {
    gulp.src('./sass/*.scss')
        .pipe(plumber())
        .pipe(sourcemaps.init({loadMaps: true}))
        .pipe(sass())
        .pipe(sourcemaps.write(undefined, { sourceRoot: null }))
        .pipe(gulp.dest('./css'))
});

gulp.task('watch-scss', ['browser-sync'], function () {
    gulp.watch('./sass/**/*.scss', ['scss-for-dev']);
}); 

// Run:
// gulp sass
// Compiles SCSS files in CSS
gulp.task('sass', function () {
    var stream = gulp.src('./sass/*.scss')
        .pipe(plumber())
        .pipe(sass())
        .pipe(gulp.dest('./css'))
        .pipe(rename('custom-editor-style.css'))
        .pipe(gulp.dest('./css'));
    return stream;
});

// Run: 
// gulp watch
// Starts watcher. Watcher runs gulp sass task on changes
gulp.task('watch', function () {
    gulp.watch('./sass/**/*.scss', ['sass']);
    gulp.watch('./css/child-theme.css', ['cssnano']);
    gulp.watch([basePaths.dev + 'js/**/*.js'], ['scripts'])
});

// Run: 
// gulp nanocss
// Minifies CSS files
gulp.task('cssnano', ['cleancss'], function(){
  return gulp.src('./css/*.css')
    .pipe(sourcemaps.init({loadMaps: true}))
    .pipe(plumber())
    .pipe(rename({suffix: '.min'}))
    .pipe(cssnano({discardComments: {removeAll: true}}))
    .pipe(sourcemaps.write('./'))
    .pipe(gulp.dest('./css/'));
}); 

gulp.task('cleancss', function() {
  return gulp.src('./css/*.min.css', { read: false }) // much faster 
    .pipe(ignore('theme.css'))
    .pipe(rimraf());
});

// Run: 
// gulp scripts. 
// Uglifies and concat all JS files into one
gulp.task('scripts', function() {
    var scripts = [
        basePaths.dev + 'js/owl.carousel.min.js', // Must be loaded before BS4
        basePaths.dev + 'js/tether.js', // Must be loaded before BS4

        // Start - All BS4 stuff
        basePaths.dev + 'js/bootstrap4/bootstrap.js',

        // End - All BS4 stuff

        basePaths.dev + 'js/skip-link-focus-fix.js'
    ];
  gulp.src(scripts)
    .pipe(concat('child-theme.min.js'))
    .pipe(uglify())
    .pipe(gulp.dest('./js/'));

  gulp.src(scripts)
    .pipe(concat('child-theme.js'))
    .pipe(gulp.dest('./js/'));
});

// Deleting any file inside the /src folder
gulp.task('clean-source', function () {
  return del(['src/**/*',]);
});

// Run: 
// gulp copy-assets. 
// Copy all needed dependency assets files from bower_component assets to themes /js, /scss and /fonts folder. Run this task after bower install or bower update


// Copy all Bootstrap JS files 
gulp.task('copy-assets', function() {

////////////////// All Bootstrap 4 Assets /////////////////////////
// Copy all Bootstrap JS files 
    gulp.src(basePaths.node + 'bootstrap/dist/js/**/*.js')
       .pipe(gulp.dest(basePaths.dev + '/js/bootstrap4'));

// Copy all Bootstrap SCSS files
    gulp.src(basePaths.node + 'bootstrap/scss/**/*.scss')
       .pipe(gulp.dest(basePaths.dev + '/sass/bootstrap4'));
////////////////// End Bootstrap 4 Assets /////////////////////////

// Copy all UnderStrap SCSS files
    gulp.src(basePaths.node + 'understrap/sass/**/*.scss')
       .pipe(gulp.dest(basePaths.dev + '/sass/understrap'));

// Copy all Font Awesome Fonts
    gulp.src(basePaths.node + 'font-awesome/fonts/**/*.{ttf,woff,woff2,eof,svg}')
        .pipe(gulp.dest('./fonts'));

// Copy all Font Awesome SCSS files
    gulp.src(basePaths.node + 'font-awesome/scss/*.scss')
        .pipe(gulp.dest(basePaths.dev + '/sass/fontawesome'));

// owl JS files
    gulp.src(basePaths.node + 'owl.carousel/dist/*.js')
        .pipe(gulp.dest(basePaths.dev + '/js'));

// Copy all Owl2 SCSS files
    gulp.src(basePaths.node + 'owl.carousel/src/scss/*.scss')
       .pipe(gulp.dest(basePaths.dev + '/sass/owl-carousel2'));

// Copy all Owl2 CSS files
    gulp.src(basePaths.node + 'owl.carousel/dist/assets/*.css')
        .pipe(gulp.dest(basePaths.dev + '/css'));

// Copy jQuery
    gulp.src(basePaths.node + 'jquery/dist/*.js')
        .pipe(gulp.dest(basePaths.dev + '/js'));

// _s SCSS files
    gulp.src(basePaths.node + 'undescores-for-npm/sass/**/*.scss')
        .pipe(gulp.dest(basePaths.dev + '/sass/underscores'));

// _s JS files
    gulp.src(basePaths.node + 'undescores-for-npm/js/*.js')
        .pipe(gulp.dest(basePaths.dev + '/js'));


// Copy Tether JS files
    gulp.src(basePaths.node + 'tether/dist/js/*.js')
        .pipe(gulp.dest(basePaths.dev + '/js'));

// Copy Tether CSS files
    gulp.src(basePaths.node + 'tether/dist/css/*.css')
        .pipe(gulp.dest(basePaths.dev + '/css'));
});

// Run
// gulp dist
// Copies the files to the /dist folder for distributon
gulp.task('dist', function() {
    gulp.src(['**/*','!sass','!sass/**','!bower_components','!bower_components/**','!node_modules','!node_modules/**','!src','!src/**','!dist','!bower.json', '!gulpfile.js', '!package.json', '*'])
    .pipe(gulp.dest('dist/'))
});

tasks.json

{
    "version": "0.1.0",
    "command": "gulp",
    "isShellCommand": true,
    "tasks": [
        {
            "taskName": "watch",
            "isBuildCommand": true,
            "showOutput": "always",
            "isWatching": true
        }
    ]
}

Please help me set everything up, I'll throw off 50 rubles for beer)

Answer 1

What exactly doesn't work? What is output in the console when gulp watch?