Gulp Error: ENOENT, lstat while running tasks - node.js

I am using gulp to copy and clean my front-end projects. I want to run some sequential tasks. It means, for example, I want the copy task to be started and finished and then run its the following task (a copy task).
I frequently see this error when I run my tasks:
events.js:72
throw er; // Unhandled 'error' event
^
Error: ENOENT, lstat '/home/reza/projects/account-web/dist/views'
After lstat, each I see a file name randomly. I just find that when there is no dist folder or it is empty copy tasks run properly but when the dist folder is not empty even clean task throws and error.
There are my gulp file and command results below:
var gulp = require('gulp');
var clean = require('gulp-clean');
var merge = require('gulp-merge');
var runSequence = require('run-sequence');
gulp.task('clean', function () {
gulp.src('./dist/**').pipe(clean());
});
gulp.task('copy-js', function () {
return gulp.src('app/js/**').pipe(gulp.dest('dist/js/'));
});
gulp.task('copy-bower', function () {
return gulp.src('bower_components/**').pipe(gulp.dest('dist/bower_components/'));
});
gulp.task('copy-script', function () {
return gulp.src('app/scripts/**').pipe(gulp.dest('dist/scripts/'));
});
gulp.task('copy-styles', function () {
var stream1 = gulp.src('app/styles/**').pipe(gulp.dest('dist/styles/'));
var stream2 = gulp.src('app/fonts/**').pipe(gulp.dest('dist/fonts/'));
var stream3 = gulp.src('app/img/**').pipe(gulp.dest('dist/img/'));
return merge(stream1, stream2, stream3);
});
gulp.task('copy-views', function () {
var stream1 = gulp.src('app/views/**').pipe(gulp.dest('dist/views/'));
var stream2 = gulp.src('app/*').pipe(gulp.dest('dist/'));
return merge(stream1, stream2);
});
gulp.task('dist', function () {
runSequence(['copy-bower','copy-js', 'copy-script', 'copy-styles', 'copy-views']);//
});
gulp.task('dev', function () {
runSequence('clean', 'dist')
});
gulp.task('default', ['dev']);
I thought that there is concurrency problem and the tasks are not running really sequentially, so I tries some modules to solve this problem like runSequence.
➜ account-web git:(master) ✗ gulp clean
[14:20:55] Using gulpfile ~/projects/account-web/Gulpfile.js
[14:20:55] Starting 'clean'...
[14:20:55] Finished 'clean' after 5.58 ms
events.js:72
throw er; // Unhandled 'error' event
^
Error: ENOENT, lstat '/home/reza/projects/account-web/dist/views'
➜ account-web git:(master) ✗ gulp dev
[14:35:03] Using gulpfile ~/projects/account-web/Gulpfile.js
[14:35:03] Starting 'dev'...
[14:35:03] Starting 'clean'...
[14:35:03] Finished 'clean' after 5.47 ms
[14:35:03] Starting 'dist'...
[14:35:03] Starting 'copy-bower'...
[14:35:03] Starting 'copy-js'...
[14:35:03] Starting 'copy-script'...
[14:35:03] Starting 'copy-styles'...
[14:35:03] Starting 'copy-views'...
[14:35:03] Finished 'dist' after 14 ms
[14:35:03] Finished 'dev' after 22 ms
stream.js:94
throw er; // Unhandled stream error in pipe.
^
Error: ENOENT, open '/home/reza/projects/account- web/dist/styles/fonts.css'

I wonder if it's attempting to asynchronously delete a file within a nested folder after the nested folder has already been deleted. Try changing your src to include the dist folder without the wildcards. This will tell it to delete the dist folder instead of each item independently.
gulp.task('clean', function () {
gulp.src('./dist').pipe(clean());
});
It also appears that gulp-clean has been deprecated, you may want to checkout del as a replacement. It is able to handle your original glob pattern correctly.

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I have a Gulp script to concatenate, and minimize javascript.
It seems to be working but doesn't output the combined file.
The script is (complete - including extra debug bits):
// include plug-ins
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var gulp = require('gulp');
var count = require('gulp-count');
var debug = require('gulp-debug');
var concat = require('gulp-concat');
var uglify = require('gulp-uglify');
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Which produces the output - including file list for verification there are src files:
[07:46:25] Using gulpfile <path>\gulpfile.js
[07:46:25] Starting 'default'...
[07:46:25] Starting 'scripts'...
[07:46:25] Starting 'clean'...
[07:46:25] Starting 'read'...
[07:46:25] Finished 'read' after 996 μs
[07:46:25] Finished 'clean' after 2.73 ms
[07:46:25] Finished 'scripts' after 4.26 ms
[07:46:25] Finished 'default' after 6.9 ms
[ 'bootstrap-datetimepicker.js',
'bootstrap.min.js',
'chart.min.js',
'cycle.js',
'farbtastic.js',
'jquery-3.2.1.min.js',
'jquery-sortable-min.js',
'moment.min.js',
'ol.min.js',
'pablo.min.js',
'popper.min.js',
'proj4.js',
'promisedIndexDB.js',
'qunit-2.6.1.js',
'toastr.js' ]
If I create an empty file, at dist/js/libraries.min.js it isn't deleted as part of the gulp tasks, however if i move the call to del() outside the gulp tasks it is deleted, so that leads me to assume that its not as simple as a permissions issue, or path issues.
Any idea what I've done wrong?
PS: its on a windows box, running in an admin cmd window.
You were using the wrong signature for the task. The correct one is :
task([taskName], taskFunction)
see task signature
But your tasks look like this:
gulp.task('scripts', gulp.series('clean'), (done) => { // 3 parameters
Merely changing that to:
gulp.task('scripts', gulp.series('clean', (done) => {
...
}));
makes it work - I tested it. So now that task has only two parameters: a task name and a function. Yours had a task name plus two functions.
You would also need to change your default and clean tasks to this proper signature. Also you should call done() at the end of the task as you did with your cb().
Your new code uses task functions, which are better than named tasks for a number of reasons - but now you know what was wrong with your original code. The main body of your scripts task was never being run.
I never worked out what was wrong, but went direct to the doc's and started again (previous version was from a example)..
Works with the below (much simpler) script.
// // include plug-ins
var gulp = require('gulp');
var count = require('gulp-count');
var debug = require('gulp-debug');
var concat = require('gulp-concat');
var uglify = require('gulp-uglify');
var del = require('del');
var config = {
src: 'jspa-scada/dist/libraries/',
dest: 'jspa-scada/dist/js/',
outputfile: 'libraries.min.js'
}
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del([config.dest + config.outputfile]);
// Include all js files but exclude any min.js files
var globs = [
config.src + '*.js',
'!' + config.src + '*.min.js'
];
return gulp.src(globs)
.pipe(debug())
.pipe(count('## files selected'))
.pipe(uglify())
.pipe(concat(config.outputfile))
.pipe(gulp.dest(config.dest));
cb();
}
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Visual Studio 2015 Community
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[16:10:46] Starting 'clean-images'...
[16:10:46] Cleaning: build/images/**/*.*
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[17:04:27] Starting 'runTests'...
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at child_process.js:1144:20
at process._tickCallback (node.js:355:11)
at Function.Module.runMain (module.js:503:11)
at startup (node.js:129:16)
at node.js:814:3
Process finished with exit code 1
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But not the browserify command, can anyone help?
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