Node.js & Gulp: Real piping sequence could differ from written '.pipe()'s chain?

In the below code, fileShouldBePreprocessedBySass() will be called before console.log('intercepted!'); execution. Also, in fileShouldBePreprocessedBySass(targetFileAbsolutePath), parameter targetFileAbsolutePath will be undefined:

let currentSourceFileAbsolutePath;

return gulp.src(entryPointsSourceFilesPathsOrGlobs)

    // "gulpPlugins.intercept" is "gulp-intercept"
    .pipe(gulpPlugins.intercept( sourceVynilFile => {
      console.log('intercepted!');
      currentSourceFileAbsolutePath = sourceVynilFile.path;
      console.log(currentSourceFileAbsolutePath); // OK here
      return sourceVynilFile;
    }))

    // "gulpPlugins.if" is "gulp-if"
    .pipe(gulpPlugins.if(
        // currentSourceFileAbsolutePath is undefined !!!
        fileShouldBePreprocessedBySass(currentSourceFileAbsolutePath),
        gulpPlugins.sass()
    ));

// ...

fileShouldBePreprocessedBySass(targetFileAbsolutePath) {

    console.warn('---');
    console.warn(targetFileAbsolutePath); // undefined!

    const targetFilenameExtension = Path.extname(targetFileAbsolutePath);
    let targetFilenameExtensionIsSupportedBySassPreprocessor = false;

    for (const filenameExtension of SUPPORTED_FILENAME_EXTENSIONS__SASS_PREPROCESSOR) {
      if (filenameExtension === targetFilenameExtension) {
        targetFilenameExtensionIsSupportedBySassPreprocessor = true;
        break;
      }
    }

    return targetFilenameExtensionIsSupportedBySassPreprocessor;
}

Really, original code written in TypeScript, but I rewrite it to JavaScript to allow more people to understand the code. I said about it because TypeScript compiler somehow understood, what in pipe(gulpPlugins.if(/*...*/)), parameter currentSourceFileAbsolutePath is not initialized, so TS2454: Variable 'currentSourceFileAbsolutePath' is used before being assigned. error occurred.

I am confused because I have similar task which works without error (in right sequence):

let currentSourceFileAbsolutePath: string;

return gulp.src(entryPointsSourceFilesPathsOrGlobs)

    .pipe(gulpPlugins.intercept(sourceVynilFile => {
      currentSourceFileAbsolutePath = sourceVynilFile.path;
      return sourceFile;
    }))

    .pipe(gulpPlugins.pug())
    .pipe(gulpPlugins.intercept(compiledHtmlFile => {
      // currentSourceFileAbsolutePath is NOT undefined!
      if (shouldValidateCompiledHtmlRespectiveToSourceFile(currentSourceFileAbsolutePath)) {
        HtmlValidator.validateHtml(compiledHtmlFile);
      }
      return compiledHtmlFile;
    }))

    .pipe(gulp.dest(() => (
      // currentSourceFileAbsolutePath is NOT undefined!
      getOutputDirectoryForPreprocessedMarkupEntryPointFileByRespectiveSourceFile(currentSourceFileAbsolutePath)
    )));

What wrong in the first task? I missed some async call?

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