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?
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 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.
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 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 
sudo ln -s /usr/bin/nodejs /usr/bin/node since so many apps/packages look for it there.
ln -s [target] [name|directory] command creates a symbolic link ("alias" or "shortcut"). See linuxcommand.org/man_pages/ln1.html
I solved the issue removing gulp and installing gulp-cli again:
rm /usr/local/bin/gulp npm install -g gulp-cli 
sudo
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
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.
Tried with sudo and it worked !!
sudo npm install --global gulp-cli 
--global means and how this doesn't fix the problem on other peoples computers.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.
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.
npm install gulp -g