How can I set up gulp to run identically in Visual Studio 2017 and msbuild without having to change my build scripts?

Question

I\'m struggling to get set up with gulp in Visual Studio 2017. I\'m not sure where I\'m going wrong but there are a few things I\'m confused about and I can\'t really find any o

Answer 1

I found the solution here. More information on that part of VS from Mads himself.

You have to force Visual Studio run with your Node.js version:

Go to Tools > Options in Visual Studio 2017

Go to Projects and Solutions > External Web Tools

Add the following path: C:\Program Files\nodejs