'gulp' is not recognized as an internal or external command

Question

I am trying to use Gulp and Node.Js to stream my process for minifying and concatenating CSS/JS files for production.

Here is what I have done.

1. I installed

Answer 1

I just encountered this on Windows 10 and the latest NodeJS (14.15.1). In my case our admins have our profiles and true "home" folder remotely mount onto our work machine(s). Npm wanted to put its cache over on the remote server and that has worked until this release.

I was unaware that npm has a .npmrc file available. I added one to my actual machine's C:\Users\my-id folder and it contains:

prefix=C:\Users\my-id\nodejs\npm
cache=c:\Users\my-id\nodejs\npm-cache

I also added these paths to my PATH environment variable.

I went to the APPDATA folder on my work machine and the remote "home" server and deleted all the npm related Roaming folders. I deleted the node_modules folder in my project.

I closed all open windows and reopened them. I brought up a command prompt in my project dir and re inited npm and reinstalled the modules I wanted.

After that everything is rolling along.