No gulpfile found

Question

I am new in laravel. I am trying the command nmp install. it does not work. Then as shown in their official documentation, I tried

npm install --global gulp-cli

but I was getting access denied error. So I gave

sudo npm install --global gulp-cli

It seemed to give me some correct result. then I gave

npm install --no-bin-links

but it says that,

"npm WARN vagrant@1.0.0 No description npm WARN vagrant@1.0.0 No repository field." I tried

npm install -d

though the result ended with "ok" (after running the command the first line said "it worked if it ends with ok"), it still contains ""npm WARN vagrant@1.0.0 No description npm WARN vagrant@1.0.0 No repository field." And when I gave the command

gulp

the answer was no gulpfile found. In my project there is a gulpfile.js file (I am not sure about which gulpfile it is talking :\ )

what to do? My node version is V5.12.0

Answer 1

I encountered same problem in Laravel 6. I solved it by steps:

npm init
npm install --save-dev gulp
npx mkdirp yourProjectName
npm install --save-dev gulp

Create a gulpfile:Using your text editor, create a file named gulpfile.js in your project root with these contents:

function defaultTask(cb) {
  // place code for your default task here
  cb();
}

exports.default = defaultTask

Full Resource here: https://gulpjs.com/docs/en/getting-started/quick-start

Hope this helps ypu

Answer 2

After running 'yo' to create your new project, use 'cd' command to jump to the the root directory of your new project, then you can run 'gulp' commands.

Answer 3

My gulpFile.js was not in my root directory as expected!

I had to find the file, change to that directory, and then run gulp forever --react. (I have a React project.)

Answer 4

I also had this issue. I created the gulpfile.js file through explorer so it was incorrectly named gulpfile.js.txt which prevented the gulp command finding it. This only became obvious when I opened the project in a text editor and I saw the extension.

Answer 5

In my case, in order to solve the error, 'no gulpfile found' I wrongly called the configuration file as gulp.js instead of gulpfile.js.

So just make sure you didn't misspell the file.

Another possible reason why you might get this error is when you are running the gulp command in the wrong directory. Make sure the gulpfile.js is not inside another folder but within the project folder.

Answer 6

Thanks for creating this issue, I also had it. The fix for me was to put gulpfile.js in the root directory.