gulp watch causing terminal notification spam / loop

I am still using gulp in my Laravel project as I refuse to use webpack which is a complete mess. My gulpfile is like this:

var elixir = require('laravel-elixir');
elixir.config.css.sass.pluginOptions.precision = 10;
elixir.config.sourcemaps = false;

/*
 |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
 | Elixir Asset Management
 |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
 |
 | Elixir provides a clean, fluent API for defining some basic Gulp tasks
 | for your Laravel application. By default, we are compiling the Less
 | file for our application, as well as publishing vendor resources.
 |
 temp
 */

elixir(function (mix) {

    mix.sass('app.scss')

        .browserify('app.js')

        .copy('resources/assets/libs/font-awesome-4.6.3/fonts', 'resources/fonts')

        .copy('node_modules/jquery-ui-bundle/images', 'public/css/images')

        .scripts('script.js')

        //various other scripts

        .scripts('scriptN.js');

});

I read font awesome my be causing this loop and the solution suggested is to move fonts from public/fonts to resources/fonts, which as you can see I already did however nothing changed. Laravel version is 5.6.26 and gulp versions is

gulp -v
[19:22:34] CLI version 3.9.0
[19:22:34] Local version 3.9.1