Gulp watch and sass working but not working - gulp

I've been toiling with this for a number of hours now and figured I best get some help as I'm going in circles.
I'm relatively new to using Gulp but quite excited to be doing so. I have a very simple gulpfile.js setup as below:
var gulp = require('gulp');
var sass = require('gulp-sass');
gulp.task('sass', function () {
gulp.src('./sass/**/*.scss')
.pipe(sass())
.pipe(gulp.dest('./css'));
console.log("ran something");
});
gulp.task('watch', function () {
gulp.watch('./sass/**/*.scss', ['sass']);
});
This all executes just fine. However, my scss files only get compliled when I first execute gulp. The watch recognises all changes when I make them but no further compiles are made. It's almost like the file gets locked or cached or something strange after it is first initiated.
Here is cli output:
[15:04:04] Starting 'watch'...
[15:04:04] Finished 'watch' after 11 ms
[15:04:12] Starting 'sass'...
ran something
[15:04:12] Finished 'sass' after 8.17 ms
I'm running Windows 10 64bit and fresh install of gulp and dependencies as of today.
My primary editor is PhpStorm in which I've setup a configuration to run the gulp file. However, I've also tried in a basic text editor as well as running gulp directly from the node command prompt.
Any ideas?

Appears as though the issue wasn't an issue with gulp or any of the setup above. I noticed if I watched the files outside of all my editors that they were indeed being updated via gulp and it was just my editors that weren't responding until I stopped the gulp watch.
I trialled the latest version of PhpStorm 10 and it worked perfectly first time even though nothing else has changed. Must simply be a bug in version 8 seeming Gulp didn't exist back then.

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function css(cb) {
console.log("css");
cb();
}
function javascript(cb) {
console.log("javascript");
cb();
}
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When I run this with gulp build, I get:
Task never defined: build
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And if I change the exports to:
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and run with gulp build, then it works too.
What am I doing wrong?
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This will solve your issue.

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I switch to another scss file, edit that and THAT one is now exluded but the previous gets compiled.
gulpfile.js
var gulp = require('gulp');
var sass = require('gulp-sass');
gulp.task('scss', function () {
return gulp.src('assets/resources/**/*.scss')
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});
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gulp.watch('assets/resources/**/*.scss', ['scss']);
});
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Should also note that doing a normal sass watch from the command line works fine, no issues there.
Gulp 3.9.1
Gulp-sass 4.0.1
Node-sass 4.9.0
File structure if it helps
assets/css/default.css
assets/resources/default.scss
assets/resources/base/<scss files>
assets/resources/modules/<scss files>
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I'm new to gulp, and I have a very basic question.
I've used the code snippet below to copy an "html" file to another directory.
gulp.task('copy-html', (done) => {
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})
Then in the command line I wrote and executed gulp copy-html
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Node version: 9.3.0
npm version : 5.5.1
gulp versions:
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Thanks in advance.
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I am following the steps in read me.
I opened a command box and ran
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which seemed to work
however ehrn I now run
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I get an error
No gulpfile found
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When I run the gulp task (default) for the first time, the sass task gives an error on a Bower package. More specifically on Susy.
The error:
Plumber found unhandled error:
Error in plugin 'gulp-sass'
Message:
file to import not found or unreadable: su/utilities
Current dir: /Users/Jeroen/sites/gulp/bower_components/susy/sass/susy/
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style.scss
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But it looks abit messy, any ideas on how I can prevent this?
You can see my entire gulpfile.js here:
https://gist.github.com/JeroenDelbrk/798d646af5cc2ad78da0
Tips on how I can improve my gulpfile, unrelated to this question, are also welcome.
In this line
gulp.task('default', ['bower', 'sass', 'scripts', 'imagemin', 'iconfont', 'watch']);
All of the tasks are getting executed in parallel. Which is fine if you don't have any dependencies. However, judging from your explanations, a successful run of sass is strongly dependent on a successful execution of bower. At the time you run sass, bower might not be finished, thus not providing the files you need.
To solve that in Gulp 3.*, you need to wire your dependencies right. I'd suggest the following:
// Define plugins
var gulp = require('gulp'),
gulpLoadPlugins = require('gulp-load-plugins');
$ = gulpLoadPlugins();
gulp.task('bower', function() {
return $.bower()
.pipe(gulp.dest('./bower_components'))
});
// Sass compile + prefix task
gulp.task('sass', ['bower'], function(){
...
});
// Default Task
gulp.task('default', ['sass', 'scripts', 'imagemin', 'iconfont']);
// Watch Task
gulp.task('watch', ['default'], function(){
gulp.watch('sass/**/*.scss', ['sass']);
gulp.watch('js/*.js', ['scripts']);
gulp.watch('originals/*', ['imagemin']);
gulp.watch('icons/*.svg', ['iconfont']);
});
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gulp.task('bower', function() {
return $.bower()
.pipe(changed('./bower_components'))
.pipe(gulp.dest('./bower_components'))
});
Hope this helps