Gulp: paths.scss.forEach is not a function

Question

I have written the following gulp task:

var paths = require('./package.json').paths;

var watching = false;

gulp.task('scss', function () {
    var processors = [
        autoprefixer({
            browsers: ['last 2 versions', '> 0.5%', 'ie >= 8', 'ie_mob >= 10', 'ff >= 30', 'chrome >= 34', 'ios >= 7', 'android >= 4']
        }),
        cssnano({
            autoprefixer: false,
            safe: true
        })
    ];
    var streams = merge();
    var development = (gutil.env.type === 'dev10');
    paths.scss.forEach(function (path) {
        streams.add(gulp.src(path.scss.src + '**/*.scss')
            .pipe(sourcemaps.init())
            .pipe(sass())
            .pipe(postcss(processors))
            .pipe(sourcemaps.write('./'))
            .pipe(gulp.dest(path.dest)));
    });
    return streams;
});
const watch = gulp.parallel('js', 'scss');

exports.watch = watch;

Where js is another task, that is running without any error. Currently I am stuck at making this scss task work, as I am constantly receiving an error saying paths.scss.forEach is not a function. I have written the following in my package.json file that is placed in the same directory as of my gulpfile.js:

"paths": {
    "js": {
      "src": "../client/js/",
      "dest": "../static/default/js/"
    },
    "scss": {
      "src": "../client/scss/",
      "dest": "../static/default/css/"
    }
}

I am having the following traceback in the CMD:

[16:38:08] Starting 'watch'...
[16:38:08] Starting 'js'...
[16:38:08] Starting 'scss'...
[16:38:08] 'scss' errored after 84 ms
[16:38:08] TypeError: paths.scss.forEach is not a function
    at D:\XYZ\gulpfile.js:92:13
    at taskWrapper (D:\XYZ\node_modules\undertaker\lib\set-task.js:13:15)
    at bound (domain.js:280:14)
    at runBound (domain.js:293:12)
    at asyncRunner (D:\XYZ\node_modules\async-done\index.js:55:18)
    at _combinedTickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:73:7)
    at process._tickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:104:9)
[16:38:08] 'watch' errored after 91 ms
[16:38:08] The following tasks did not complete: js
[16:38:08] Did you forget to signal async completion?

What should I do in this case, as I am stuck at the moment, without any ideas on how to proceed.

Mark · Accepted Answer · 2019-05-06T14:28:50.610

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Your paths.scss is an object. forEach is a property of an array. So use a for in loop instead.

gulp.task('scss', function () {

  // paths.scss.forEach(function (path) {

  for (var path in paths.scss) {

    console.log(path);  // src, dest

      streams.add(gulp.src(path + '**/*.scss')

      // streams.add(gulp.src(path.scss.src + '**/*.scss')
      //     .pipe(sourcemaps.init())
      //     .pipe(sass())
      //     .pipe(postcss(processors))
      //     .pipe(sourcemaps.write('./'))
      //     .pipe(gulp.dest(path.dest)));
  };
  // return streams;
});

But you only want path.scss.src anyway - you don't want to run your sass loop over paths.scss.dest - which is what you are trying to do. Get rid of the for loop altogether:

gulp.src(paths.scss.src + '**/*.scss')
  .pipe(sourcemaps.init())
  .pipe(sass())
  .pipe(postcss(processors))
  .pipe(sourcemaps.write('./'))
  .pipe(gulp.dest(paths.scss.dest)));

edited May 06 '19 at 14:28

answered May 06 '19 at 14:22

Mark

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so will this work even if I have a 100 `.scss` files in that path? – Code_Ninja May 07 '19 at 05:39
Yes, each will be run through that task unless it is a partial scss file. – Mark May 08 '19 at 02:29
I also need this task to keep running, even if the js and scss tasks are done with, so that when I make any change in those files, it should automatically go through this watch task, in this case also, will this code work? – Code_Ninja May 08 '19 at 08:53

Gulp: paths.scss.forEach is not a function

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