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Joe
Joe

Reputation: 4183

Publish can't find gulp

Visual Studio 2017 15.7.3, SDK Net Core 2.1, Windows 7 Ultimate

If I open a Developer Command Prompt and run gulp from the root of my project it works.

If I open a Command Prompt from Windows, navigate to the root of my project, and run gulp I get

'gulp' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.

If I search the system drive I cannot find a gulp.exe or gulp.com. I also looked directly in the C:\Users\%user%\AppData\Roaming\npmand the npm-cache folders and could not find the executable.

In my Project.csproj file I have 

<Target Name="MyPublishScripts" BeforeTargets="BeforePublish">
    <Exec Command="npm install" />
    <Exec Command="gulp" />
    <Exec Command="ng build" />
</Target>

When I Publish it crashes on the gulp command with is not recognized ....

I've tried "%APPDATA%\npm\gulp" and "%APPDATA%\npm-cache\gulp" and gulp is not recognized...

In the Output window I can see that %APPDATA% is properly interpreted as C:\Users\%user%\AppData\Roaming.

C:\Users\%user%\AppData\Roaming\npm is in the path for both command prompts.

When gulp successfully runs from the Developer Command Prompt what path is being used?

My main question is what path would I use in the .csproj for gulp?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 329

Answers (1)

Chandani Patel
Chandani Patel

Reputation: 471

You need to install gulp-cli for this. You can install gulp as a global npm module.

Try following on command-prompt.

npm install gulp-cli -g
npm install gulp -g
gulp --help

Let me know if you are still facing the same issue

Upvotes: 3

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