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 installed into.

When looking under the node_modules/.bin/ directory, I can see the gulp executable there.

Is there something wrong with my npm installation?

I'm having the same problem. I did a global install and still nothing... — iluvpinkerton, Aug 02 '14 at 00:31
This link will surely help you out https://stackoverflow.com/a/45707907/5222115 — murtuza hussain, Aug 16 '17 at 07:51

score 527 · Accepted Answer · edited Apr 11 '23 at 22:58

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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.

edited Apr 11 '23 at 22:58

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answered Mar 08 '14 at 19:38

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I am asked to run npm install -g gulp as sudo (Root . Admin) but if I do that then when I am exiting to normal user it cant find gulp command. I dont think its good to stay in root for everything I'd rather get my environment properly working. So anyone know what could cause this issue pls.. – landed Jul 30 '15 at 14:25
I guess it all depends on how/where node was installed. When using https://github.com/creationix/nvm, you don't need to be root to install global libs. – Brian Clozel Jul 30 '15 at 14:28
I think i used the installer on mac OSX to install nodejs.org I dont know the difference between nodejs and node @£$@ – landed Jul 30 '15 at 15:25
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Please keep in mind that gulp itself is no longer a global package. Instead, global-cli is (npm -i -g gulp-cli) and that global gulp should actually be uninstalled first! – Ricardo Magalhães May 10 '16 at 09:46

score 14 · Answer 2 · edited Jun 01 '17 at 12:56

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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

edited Jun 01 '17 at 12:56

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answered Oct 22 '16 at 23:10

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A slightly updated version of this worked for me, as I use NVM to manage my Node environment: `$ npm uninstall -g gulp gulp-cli` `$ rm /Users/[usrName]/.nvm/versions/node/[nodeVersion]/share/man/man1/gulp.1` `$ npm install -g gulp-cli` – JustJen Aug 08 '17 at 21:35
Global is a bad idea. – Michal Oct 20 '21 at 21:32

score 13 · Answer 3 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:47

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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

edited May 23 '17 at 11:47

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answered Oct 21 '14 at 20:07

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You also need `sudo ln -s /usr/bin/nodejs /usr/bin/node` since so many apps/packages look for it there. – Seth May 12 '15 at 19:08
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The `ln -s [target] [name|directory]` command creates a symbolic link ("alias" or "shortcut"). See http://linuxcommand.org/man_pages/ln1.html – defines Jul 28 '16 at 13:28
still not working here... Man, I kinda think that this is trivial. But this link from another SO page got the right answer. Just run it locally http://stackoverflow.com/questions/36457377/nodejs-gulp-not-found-after-npm-install?noredirect=1&lq=1 – swdev Oct 21 '16 at 04:15

score 8 · Answer 4 · answered Dec 06 '16 at 12:16

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I solved the issue removing gulp and installing gulp-cli again:

rm /usr/local/bin/gulp
npm install -g gulp-cli

answered Dec 06 '16 at 12:16

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Also needed to use `sudo` – App Dev Guy Feb 28 '17 at 02:57
needed to use sudo, but this finally worked – ahnbizcad Jun 21 '21 at 15:25

Hanzla Habib · Answer 5 · 2019-12-17T12:33:52.257

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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

edited Dec 17 '19 at 12:33

answered Sep 22 '19 at 20:33

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score 2 · Answer 6 · answered Mar 03 '17 at 22:57

Installing on a Mac - Sierra - After numerous failed attempts to install and run gulp globally via the command line using several different instructions I found I added this to my path and it worked:

export PATH=/usr/local/Cellar/node/7.6.0/libexec/npm/bin/:$PATH

I got that path from the text output when installing gulp.

score 2 · Answer 7 · edited Jun 27 '19 at 10:22

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Tried with sudo and it worked !!

sudo npm install --global gulp-cli

edited Jun 27 '19 at 10:22

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answered Jun 27 '19 at 10:19

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Please learn what `--global` means and how this doesn't fix the problem on other peoples computers. – Michal Oct 20 '21 at 21:31

score 1 · Answer 8 · answered Feb 05 '20 at 00:43

I'm on lubuntu 19.10

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

npm uninstall --global gulp gulp-cli This removes any package if they are already there.
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.

score 1 · Answer 9 · answered Jun 11 '20 at 19:05

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in my case there was only on issue, just put "gulp":"gulp" in the script portion, of package.json, and then use command npm run gulp.

answered Jun 11 '20 at 19:05

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