Locally installed gulp not running in command line

Question

I am new to nodejs and gulp stuff. I working on a nodejs project in which I have to run jslint on all the files. I am using gulp for this purpose.

My problem is that In order to run gulp on cli I don't want to install gulp globally and also does not want to update my path variable, So I have installed gulp and other node modules in my project locally using the package.json file

cd myproject

npm install

Since I don't want to install gulp globally and want to run the local gulp I have added script in my package.json file like this as given in this question

{
  "name": "",
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "main": "index.js",
  "private": true,
  "dependencies": {
    "async": "1.5.0"
  },
  "devDependencies": {
    "gulp": "^3.9.0",
    "gulp-jslint": "^0.2.2"
  },
  "scripts": {
      "gulp": "./node_modules/.bin/gulp"   // is this correct?
    }
}

Add added a gulpfile.js inside my myproject folder

var gulp = require('gulp'); 

// include plug-ins
var jslint = require('gulp-jslint');

// JS hint task
gulp.task('lint', function() {
  gulp.src('./common/srp/*.js')
    .pipe(jslint())
    .pipe(jslint.reporter('default'));
});

gulp.task("default", ["lint"]);

But now on my command line inside myproject folder, when I run gulp and gulp lint I get an error

user1-VirtualBox:~/myproject$ gulp lint

/usr/local/node-v0.10.26-linux-x64/bin/gulp No such file or directory

Its looking for gulp in the global node module.

Is there a way to make gulp run on cli without installing globally and updating PATH variable.

Any help will be appreciated Thanks

Answer 1

Scripts defined in package.json are accessed through NPM, i.e. npm run-script gulp. I imagine you're trying to run plain old gulp, which should fail since you didn't install it globally.

The scripts section won't automatically create an alias, which I think is your mistake here. You could define one yourself or create a simple bash script if you don't want to type it every time.

Answer 2

Like @snorberhuis said. The only way for me to get gulp to work globally was to call gulp manually I am building in a Jenkins environment

Execute Windows Batch Command

cd your-app
npm install gulp

Execute Windows Batch Command

cd your-app\node_modules\.bin 
gulp

Answer 3

The way I did this after bashing my head every possible place is simply going to your Application and install npm dependencies like this:

1- E:\webra-jenkins\Code\trunk\WebRa.Web>npm install

Once npm installed then go this directory

2- [%Application_path%]\node_modules\.bin

And execute the gulp and give your file/task, like this:

3-[%Application_path%]\node_modules\.bin>gulp gulpfile --tasks

In my case as I saw the following lines... I got the inner happiness

18:06:36] Working directory changed to [%Application_path%]
[18:06:37] Tasks for [%Application_path%]\gulpfile.js

Now you can run your tasks 1 by one.

[%Application_path%]\node_modules\.bin>gulp pack-vendor-js

Answer 4

Try:

path_to_node path_to_gulp_js gulp_task

Example:

node\node.exe node_modules\gulp\bin\gulp.js build