After installation of Gulp: “no command 'gulp' found”

Question

After installing gulp.js via npm, I receive a no command \'gulp\' found error when running the gulp command from the same directory it was installe

Answer 1

if still not resolved try adding this to your package.js scripts

"scripts": { "gulp": "gulp" },

and run npm run gulp it will runt gulp scripts from gulpfile.js

Answer 2

I solved the issue without reinstalling node using the commands below:

$ npm uninstall --global gulp gulp-cli
$ rm /usr/local/share/man/man1/gulp.1
$ npm install --global gulp-cli

Answer 3

I'm on lubuntu 19.10

I've used combination of previous answers, and didn't tweak the $PATH.

1. npm uninstall --global gulp gulp-cli This removes any package if they are already there.
2. sudo npm install --global gulp-cli Reinstall it as root user.

If you want to do copy and paste

npm uninstall --global gulp gulp-cli && sudo npm install --global gulp-cli 

should work

I guess --global is unnecessary here as it's installed using sudo, but I've used it just in case.

Answer 4

I actually have the same issue.

This link is probably my best guess:

nodejs vs node on ubuntu 12.04

I did that to resolve my problem:

sudo apt-get --purge remove node 
sudo apt-get --purge remove nodejs 
sudo apt-get install nodejs
sudo ln -s /usr/bin/nodejs /usr/bin/node

Answer 5

That's perfectly normal. If you want gulp-cli available on the command line, you need to install it globally.

npm install --global gulp-cli

See the install instruction.

Also, node_modules/.bin/ isn't in your $PATH. But it is automatically added by npm when running npm scripts (see this blog post for reference).

So you could add scripts to your package.json file:

{
    "name": "your-app",
    "version": "0.0.1",
    "scripts": {
        "gulp": "gulp",
        "minify": "gulp minify"
    }
}

You could then run npm run gulp or npm run minify to launch gulp tasks.

Answer 6

Tried with sudo and it worked !!

sudo npm install --global gulp-cli