Gulp: "Event.js:85" during gulp-clean - gulp

Question

I try to delete all folders and files from my directory using gulp-clean.
My directory:
app
---subfolder1
---subfolder2
------subfolder
------file1
etc
My code:
gulp.task('clean',function(){
var PATH_TO_CLEAN = '../app/**';
if(argv.path != null)
PATH_TO_CLEAN = '../app/'+argv.path+'/**';
return gulp.src(PATH_TO_CLEAN, {read: false})
.pipe(clean({force: true}))
.on("error", handleError);
});
// Error handler
function handleError(err) {
console.log(err.toString());
this.emit('end');
}
default path is '../app' but you can delete only subfolder using parametes --path=subfolder_dir
During the execution of gulp clean this error apears:
[14:43:08] Starting 'clean'...
events.js:85
throw er; // Unhandled 'error' event
^
Error: ENOENT, lstat 'C:\some_path\file.type'
at Error (native)
Gulp stops but file mentioned in error is deleted.
Repeating "gulp clean" I can finally reach succes:
[14:53:54] Starting 'clean'...
[14:53:54] Finished 'clean' after 11 ms
Do you have any idea how I can avoid this error?
I tried allso del with no success.

Answer 1

Found solution:
gulp.task('clean',function(){
var PATH_TO_CLEAN = '../app/**';
if(argv.path != null)
PATH_TO_CLEAN = '../app/'+argv.path+'/**';
del([PATH_TO_CLEAN], {force: true});
});
this is not the way I would like to manage this (by pipes) but it works well.

Answer 2

gulp-clean has been deprecated and should not be used anymore.
In my project skeletonSPA, I use the following task to clean my environment:
gulp.task('clean', function() {
var del = require('del');
var vinylPaths = require('vinyl-paths');
return gulp.src([PATH_TO_CLEAN])
.pipe(vinylPaths(del));
});
This task does not break the gulp pipe.
For this to work, you'll need to install the following modules:
npm install del vinyl-paths