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Reputation: 947

Gulp Install via the Command Line (Mac)

I've seen that in some tutorials when you install Gulp it suggests: 

npm install -g gulp

In other tutorials it suggests:

npm install -g gulp-cli

What is the difference, and what relevance does the suffix cli have? I appreciate it means command line interface, but does this have any added benefits, or are they both the same thing.

Also, all tutorials suggest installing packages like gulp globally, but then you have to install them as a dev dependency in the project anyway - why do you essentially end up having to install it twice?

Many thanks

Upvotes: 1

Views: 9801

Answers (1)

tgallacher
tgallacher

Reputation: 1672

gulp-cli is just the cli part of this tool, whereas gulp is both the cli + the library bundled together. This package was initially bundled together as gulp but to better support multiple major versions (with API changes) the CLI / Library were split. This way, the CLI could leverage the library version that was installed as part of your project dependency -- as global NPM packages should.

Installing the package globally, just allows you to reference the CLI tool by name, without including the path to your node_modules directory, e.g. gulp vs. ./node_modules/bin/gulp

The team also wrote a very brief update to summarise some of this, see: https://medium.com/gulpjs/gulp-sips-command-line-interface-e53411d4467

Upvotes: 3

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