Why don't newly added files trigger my gulp-watch task? - gulp

Question

I have a gulp task which uses gulp-imagemin to compress images. When I add new files to this directory I'd like for this task to compress them as well. I read that gulp.watch doesn't trigger on new files and that I should try gulp-watch so I used it like so;
gulp.task('images', function() {
watch({glob: './source/images/*'}, function (files) {
return files
.pipe(plumber())
.pipe(imagemin({
progressive: true,
interlaced: true
}))
.pipe(gulp.dest('./www'));
});
});
This works the same as gulp.watch on the first run, but when I add a new image to the directory nothing happens. If I overwrite an existing file however, it DOES run the task again, so it does behave differently.
The documentation on gulp-watch called this "Batch Mode" and said I could also run the task on a per-file basis, so I tried this way too;
gulp.task('images', function() {
gulp.src('./source/images/*')
.pipe(watch())
.pipe(plumber())
.pipe(imagemin({
progressive: true,
interlaced: true
}))
.pipe(gulp.dest('./www'));
});
But nothing changed. Why isn't adding files to my image directory triggering the task?

Answer 1

Adding an extra argument {cwd:'./'} in gulp.watch worked for me:
gulp.watch('src/js/**/*.js',{cwd:'./'},['scripts']);
2 things to get this working:
1 Avoid ./ in the file/folder patterns
2 Ensure ./ in the value for cwd
Good Luck.
Ref:- https://stackoverflow.com/a/34346524/4742733

Answer 2

Most likely such kind of questions are redirected to gaze package and its internal processes, that runs complicated watching procedures on your OS. In this case you should pass images/**/* to glob option, so gaze will watch all (including new) files in images directory:
var gulp = require('gulp');
var watch = require('gulp-watch');
var imagemin = require('gulp-imagemin');
gulp.task('default', function() {
watch({glob: 'images/**/*'}, function (files) {
files.pipe(imagemin({
progressive: true,
interlaced: true
}))
.pipe(gulp.dest('./www'));
});
});
But this fill not fix case, when you have empty images directory. If you want to watch them, pass ['images', 'images/**/*'] to glob, and it will watch directory, that initially empty.
P.s. also you dont need gulp-plumber in this case, because watch will rerun function, that uses imagemin every time, even when imagemin pops an error.