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

This is old question but same issue could be faced by VS 2017 users.

I was facing same issue in VS 2017 and mistakenly, I had added gulpfile.js in the sub folder.

Make sure gulpfile.js is in the root folder. gulpfile should be in root folder