how to make Gulp stop watching files

Question

How do you stop files from being watched?

I have not seen the method in the docs which seems a bit odd to me.

Answer 1

It's not a gulp thing. Gulp is just running as a never ending process.

The way to abort a process is Ctrl+C.

Answer 2

According the official document. you can using returned stream method to stop it.

let watchStream = gulp-watch(paths, function(){}) watchStream.close()