Why are task modules not included in the main gulpfile?

Question

JavaScript

I'm trying to include files with tasks in the main gulpfile via require-dir, but for some reason it doesn't work. Tell me what am I doing wrong?

const requireDir = require('require-dir');

requireDir('./gulp/tasks/');

module.exports.start = series(scripts, pug2html);`

Answer 1

Found a solution that I don't like.
But it really works.
You need to wrap the function itself in gulp.task like:

'use strict';

const { src, dest, task } = require('gulp');
const less = require('gulp-less');


task('styles', function () {
  return src('./src/styles/main.less')
    .pipe(less())
    .pipe(dest('./build/css'));

});

and in gulpfile.js start tasks write in the old version:

'use strict';

const { 
  src,
  dest,
  watch,
  series,
  parallel,
  lastRun,
  task } = require('gulp');

const requireDir = require('require-dir');
requireDir('./tasks');

task('default', parallel('html', 'styles'));

Unfortunately, I myself did not understand what this is connected with.

Answer 2

can you give a little more details? gulp version? contents of files in tasks? something writes in the console?
apparently, requireDir returns to nowhere and is not processed in any way, you can try to do it like here:
https://github.com/thienhung1989/angular-tree-dnd/...
or do it without require-dir:
gulp.tasks = require('./gulp/tasks/')().tasks;