Task does nothing when loaded with grunt.loadTasks(subDir)

[alanalvarado]

Hello, I am using grunt 1.04, running on osx Mojave 10.14.6. When I load clean task with grunt.loadTasks(subDir) and run the next command:

grunt clean

it just freezes the command line, i have to ctrl c to continue

If I uncomment the line loadNpmTasks and comment registertask then it works.

configuration content is as follows:

gruntfile.js

module.exports = function(grunt) {
	require('jit-grunt')(grunt);

	grunt.initConfig({
		pkg: grunt.file.readJSON('package.json'),
		path: grunt.file.readJSON('routes.json'),
	});

	grunt.loadTasks('grunt/tasks');

	// Log our current config
	console.log(grunt.config());

        // grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-contrib-clean');
		
	grunt.registerTask('clean', ['clean']);
	
};

clean.js

module.exports = function(grunt) {
	grunt.config('clean', {
		styles: ['**/*.css']
	});
};

[alanalvarado]

In fact I just checked with my old branch where all grunt configuration was in only one file, grunt-contrib-clean does the same, the problem appears when I do grunt.registerTask('clean', ['clean']

[alanalvarado]

Ok for anyone out there trying this, the problem seems to be related to the next post.
gruntjs/grunt#1260

Simply comment loadNpmTasks and use registerTask with another name, clean is reserved.

gruntfile.js

module.exports = function(grunt) {
	require('jit-grunt')(grunt);

	grunt.initConfig({
		pkg: grunt.file.readJSON('package.json'),
		path: grunt.file.readJSON('routes.json'),
	});

	grunt.loadTasks('grunt/tasks');

	// Log our current config
	console.log(grunt.config());

        // grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-contrib-clean');
		
	grunt.registerTask('remove', ['clean']);
	
};