Trying to get gulp notify to work and tell me things are running and updating - npm

Question

I am currently struggling to get gulp notify to display a success notification when I run my gulp watch command from terminal so that I know the command is running and the files have been compiled to the dist directory I have created.
I am very new to gulp and reading the docs on notify isn't 100% easy for me to understand or clear to me what I am doing wrong.
currently the code looks a bit like this...
var gulp = require('gulp'),
gutil = require('gulp-util'),
jshint = require('gulp-jshint'),
uglify = require('gulp-uglify'),
sass = require('gulp-sass'),
concat = require('gulp-concat'),
sourcemaps = require('gulp-sourcemaps'),
pump = require('pump'),
notify = require('gulp-notify'),
plumber = require('gulp-plumber'),
growl = require('growl'),
input = {
'sass': 'scss/**/*.scss',
'javascript': 'js/**/*.js'
},
output = {
'stylesheets': 'dist/styles',
'javascript': 'dist/javascript'
};
gulp.task('build-js', function() {
return gulp.src(input.javascript)
.pipe(sourcemaps.init())
.pipe(concat('test.js'))
//only uglify if gulp is ran with '--type production'
.pipe(gutil.env.type === 'production' ? uglify() : gutil.noop())
.pipe(sourcemaps.write())
.pipe(gulp.dest(output.javascript));
});
gulp.task('build-css', function() {
return gulp.src('scss/**/*.scss')
.pipe(sourcemaps.init())
.pipe(sass())
.pipe(sourcemaps.write())
.pipe(gulp.dest(output.stylesheets));
});
gulp.task('watch', function() {
notify("Watching for changes...").write('');
gulp.watch(input.javascript, ['jshint', 'build-js']);
gulp.watch(input.sass, ['build-css']);
.pipe(notify({
message: "Generated file: <%= file.relative %> # <%= options.date %>",
templateOptions: {
date: new Date()
}
}))
});

Answer 1

I've managed to get it working by changing the watch task to the following
gulp.task('watch', function() {
notify("Watching for changes...").write('');
gulp.watch(input.javascript, ['jshint', 'build-js']);
gulp.watch(input.sass, ['build-css']);
gulp.watch([
'dist/**/*'
]).on('change', function () {
notify("Files updated").write('');
});
});