Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, open 'C:\Users\username\Projects\my-project\dist-compiled\main.js'

[JackMiszencin]

Hey there, I'm pretty new to gulp in general, so I'm sorry if I'm missing something, but I can't figure this out for the life of me.

I'm trying to write a series of tasks within my gulpfile. The first processes some source files and outputs to a directory called 'dist-compiled'. When I run the builder, I tell it to use one of the files in this directory as the source for the new bundle. Here's my gulpfile.js :

`// gulpfile.js

'use strict';

var del = require('del'); var gulp = require('gulp'); var embedTemplates = require('gulp-angular-embed-templates'); var sourcemaps = require('gulp-sourcemaps'); var systemjsBuilder = require('gulp-systemjs-builder'); var sass = require('gulp-sass');

gulp.task('clean', function() { return del(['dist-compiled/', 'dist/']); });

gulp.task('sass', function() { return gulp.src('assets/*.scss') .pipe(sass().on('error', sass.logError)) .pipe(gulp.dest('./dist')); });

gulp.task('build:prep', ['clean', 'sass'], function () { gulp.src('app/*/.js') // also can use *.js files .pipe(sourcemaps.init()) .pipe(embedTemplates({sourceType:'js'})) .pipe(sourcemaps.write()) .pipe(gulp.dest('./dist-compiled')); });

gulp.task('build:dev', ['build:prep'], function() { var builder = systemjsBuilder(); builder.loadConfigSync('./systemjs.config.js'); builder.loader.defaultJSExtensions = true; builder.buildStatic('./dist-compiled/main.js', './dist/bundle.js', { minify: false, mangle: false }).pipe(gulp.dest('./dist')); }); `

When I try to run gulp build:dev, it runs through the build:prep task fine, but then gets to the systemjs-builder part and throws this error:

Unhandled rejection Error on fetch for dist-compiled/main.js at file:///C:/Users/username/Projects/my-project/dist-compiled/main.js Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, open 'C:\Users\username\Projects\my-project\dist-compiled\main.js' at Error (native)

The problem of course is that the file actually does exist. I'm not sure if the build:prep maybe doesn't get done before the build:dev portion starts or what, but it doesn't seem to be finding the main.js file either way. Thoughts? Any help is much appreciated. I'm at wit's end with this thing.

[marklreyes]

@JackMiszencin What was your final resolution? I too am running into similar issues and have reported it on StackOverflow.