After installing gulp.js via npm, I receive a no command 'gulp' found
error when running the gulp
command from the same directory it was installed into.
When looking under the node_modules/.bin/
directory, I can see the gulp
executable there.
Is there something wrong with my npm installation?
That's perfectly normal.
If you want gulp-cli
available on the command line, you need to install it globally.
npm install --global gulp-cli
See the install instruction.
Also, node_modules/.bin/
isn't in your $PATH
. But it is automatically added by npm when running npm scripts (see this blog post for reference).
So you could add scripts
to your package.json
file:
{
"name": "your-app",
"version": "0.0.1",
"scripts": {
"gulp": "gulp",
"minify": "gulp minify"
}
}
You could then run npm run gulp
or npm run minify
to launch gulp tasks.
I actually have the same issue.
This link is probably my best guess:
nodejs vs node on ubuntu 12.04
I did that to resolve my problem:
sudo apt-get --purge remove node
sudo apt-get --purge remove nodejs
sudo apt-get install nodejs
sudo ln -s /usr/bin/nodejs /usr/bin/node
I solved the issue without reinstalling node using the commands below:
$ npm uninstall --global gulp gulp-cli
$ rm /usr/local/share/man/man1/gulp.1
$ npm install --global gulp-cli
I solved the issue removing gulp and installing gulp-cli again:
rm /usr/local/bin/gulp
npm install -g gulp-cli
Installing on a Mac - Sierra - After numerous failed attempts to install and run gulp globally via the command line using several different instructions I found I added this to my path and it worked:
export PATH=/usr/local/Cellar/node/7.6.0/libexec/npm/bin/:$PATH
I got that path from the text output when installing gulp.
I had to place sudo
before npm install gulp-cli -g
.
Running as administrator did not work for me. Maybe it might for some of you.