Specifying a new cwd (current working directory)

This is helpful for projects using a nested directory structure, such as:

/project
  /layer1
  /layer2

You can use the gulp CLI option --cwd

From the project/ directory

gulp --cwd ./layer1/

Another option is to use process.chdir which is just vanilla node.

gulpfile.js

var gulp = require('gulp');

try {
  process.chdir(gulp.env.cwd);
} catch (err) {
  console.error('Unable to chdir to %s', gulp.env.cwd);
}

If you only need to specify a cwd for a certain glob, you can use the cwd option on a glob-stream

gulp.src('./some/dir/**/*.js', { cwd: './public' });