How to clean a project correctly with gulp?

You can make separate tasks to be triggered by watch:

gulp.task('clean', function(cb) {
  // You can use multiple globbing patterns as you would with `gulp.src`
  del(['build'], cb);
});

var scripts = function() {
  // Minify and copy all JavaScript (except vendor scripts)
  return gulp.src(paths.scripts)
    .pipe(coffee())
    .pipe(uglify())
    .pipe(concat('all.min.js'))
    .pipe(gulp.dest('build/js'));
};
gulp.task('scripts', ['clean'], scripts);
gulp.task('scripts-watch', scripts);

// Copy all static images
var images = function() {
 return gulp.src(paths.images)
    // Pass in options to the task
    .pipe(imagemin({optimizationLevel: 5}))
    .pipe(gulp.dest('build/img'));
};
gulp.task('images', ['clean'], images);
gulp.task('images-watch', images);

// the task when a file changes
gulp.task('watch', function() {
  gulp.watch(paths.scripts, ['scripts-watch']);
  gulp.watch(paths.images, ['images-watch']);
});

// The default task (called when you run `gulp` from cli)
gulp.task('default', ['watch', 'scripts', 'images']);