Visual Studio 2015 RC Gulp task runner not detecting tasks

Question

I have a Gulpfile.js in Visual Studio 2015 RC with a single default task. For some reason it is not showing up in the Task Runner Explorer.

I had added gulp

Answer 1

For me, Visual Studio crashed while installing the npm modules and it caused corruption in the npm cache.

I had to clean the cache, delete node_modules, and install again.

• Close Visual Studio
• Open node command prompt
• cd [PROJECT_DIR]
• npm cache clean
• rimraf node_modules
  • This will delete the node_modules folder when windows fails because of deep nested paths
  • To install rimraf:
  • npm install rimraf -g
• npm install

Now, open Visual Studio and it should work.