caught error stops watching the files

[Mateusz Barczak]

I have the following config:

gulp.task('ngAnnotate', function() {
  return gulp.src(paths.js)
    .pipe(ngAnnotate({
      add: true,
      remove: true,
      single_quotes: true
    }).on('error', function(err) {
      console.error(err.toString());
    }))
    .pipe(gulp.dest('./public'));
});
gulp.task('watch', function() {
  gulp.watch(paths.js, ['ngAnnotate', 'jshint']);
});

It works, so far so good. But, if I make a syntax error, the error will be caught and printed to the console - all good. However, the plugin won't watch the files. I have to restart the gulp.

Without the simplest of error handling the gulp.watch will just crash and will be forced to restart anyways, which will crash again until the error is found and dealt with.

Am I doing something wrong?

[Mateusz Barczak]

Ok, found the solution....

.on('error', function(err) {
      console.error(err.toString());
      this.emit('end');
})

This seems to do the trick.

[Kagami Hiiragi]

Yea, you could either set error handler or use gulp-plumber plugin.