Using WSL Debian for dev and gulp.watch is not running when files are changed on the Windows side. Solution is to add {interval: 1000, usePolling: true} to the gulp.watch event.

For example, here’s the styles portion of my gulp.watch task.

gulp.watch([path.source + 'styles/**/*'], {interval: 1000, usePolling: true}, gulp.series('styles'));

Published on August 19, 2020