gulp loading other patterns in gulp-load-plugins error

Question

I am loading gulp-load-plugins and other patterns, but when I use del package, it says it is undefined:

var $ = require('gulp-load-plugins')({
    pattern: ['gulp-*', 'gulp.*', '@*/gulp{-,.}*', 'main-bower-files', 'uglify-save-license', 'del']
});

here is how i use it:

gulp.task('clean', function ()
{
    return $.del([...]);
});

error i get:

 TypeError: $.del is not a function

Answer 1

In case if you haven't installed del package as your dependency, please install it using the below command,

npm install --save-dev del

And also as suggested by AHC ensure that you've included as part of your devDependencies in your package.json which you'll be referring through your gulp-load-plugins package.

Hope this helps!

Answer 2

if it is already installed, then it is because you should include it in the devdependencies in the package.json file as well, for it to load with gulp-load-plugins

  "devDependencies": {
    "del": "^2.0.2",
     ...
   }