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RandomUs1r
RandomUs1r

Reputation: 4190

Gulp install on Windows (Npm issue)

I'm trying to install Gulp for my Angular UI project and I'm a bit surprised by the fact that it won't install due to it's dependencies. So, node installed fine, but npm.js refuses to install due to file path too long error. My folder structure is 75 characters long, of the 260 available characters, that leaves 185 characters for npm to use. Am I missing something here, or do the npm authors expect me to fire up a linux box for my UI? (A deal breaker)

Update:

What is the best way to install gulp as a dependency for my Angular UI project? (My goal is to ultimately have gulp become part of my TFS CI)

Upvotes: 0

Views: 818

Answers (1)

Steve Land
Steve Land

Reputation: 4862

Ignoring your path length problem for now (you may want to split your question), as far as how to get gulp installed, you just need to include it in your package.json file as a dependency.

You can do that by running npm install --save gulp

However, that does need npm installed first. The easiest way to do this is to download and install Node from: https://nodejs.org/en/download/ This will install Node and npm globally, which should avoid your path length problem and in my experience is the standard approach (I've not worked with TFS, but all other CI pipelines I've worked with support Node via a container image or build option/step).

If you dont want to manually install Node, you can use something like Chocolatey to install it automatically (you can install Chocolatey from https://chocolatey.org/ and then you can run choco install nodejs from your command line).

Upvotes: 1

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