Recursive process.nextTick detected – Issue with Grunt and Watch
Recently came up against this issue when using Watch with Grunt. I’m running Grunt 0.4.5 and Watch 0.6.1. When I would run “grunt watch” I would get the following error: “Recursive process.nextTick detected.” The issue was that I had registered a “watch” task as well as loaded the “watch” task. For example:
module.exports = function(grunt) {
grunt.initConfig({
watch: {
files: ['app/**/*.js'],
tasks: ['jasmine'],
options: {
spawn: false
}
},
});
grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-contrib-watch');
grunt.registerTask('watch', ['watch']);
To get rid of the issue, just remove the registerTask call like so:
module.exports = function(grunt) {
grunt.initConfig({
watch: {
files: ['app/**/*.js'],
tasks: ['jasmine'],
options: {
spawn: false
}
},
});
grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-contrib-watch');
It was a careless mistake on my part as you are able to create your own tasks in Grunt which in turn perform other tasks.
