No gulpfile found

Question

I am new in laravel. I am trying the command nmp install. it does not work. Then as shown in their official documentation, I tried

npm install --global gulp-cli

but I was getting access denied error. So I gave

sudo npm install --global gulp-cli

It seemed to give me some correct result. then I gave

npm install --no-bin-links

but it says that,

"npm WARN vagrant@1.0.0 No description npm WARN vagrant@1.0.0 No repository field." I tried

npm install -d

though the result ended with "ok" (after running the command the first line said "it worked if it ends with ok"), it still contains ""npm WARN vagrant@1.0.0 No description npm WARN vagrant@1.0.0 No repository field." And when I gave the command

gulp

the answer was no gulpfile found. In my project there is a gulpfile.js file (I am not sure about which gulpfile it is talking :\ )

what to do? My node version is V5.12.0

can you post the directory path on your terminal when you run "gulp" command — Ravisha Hesh, Aug 14 '16 at 19:12
If you are explicitly using something like `gulp --gulpfile custom_gulpfile.js` and you get this error - check the file path, if the path is wrong you still get the same error :) — jave.web, Jan 17 '21 at 16:30

score 19 · Answer 1 · edited May 30 '18 at 12:26

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In my case, in order to solve the error, 'no gulpfile found' I wrongly called the configuration file as gulp.js instead of gulpfile.js.

So just make sure you didn't misspell the file.

Another possible reason why you might get this error is when you are running the gulp command in the wrong directory. Make sure the gulpfile.js is not inside another folder but within the project folder.

edited May 30 '18 at 12:26

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answered Nov 21 '17 at 06:56

Hyder B.

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score 12 · Answer 2 · edited Aug 24 '17 at 15:38

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This error means that gulp doesn't find gulpfile.js to follow the instructions. To solve this error we need to add gulpfile.js to our directory root by running the command.

Create gulpfile.js and then add

var gulp = require('gulp');
gulp.task('default', function () { 
    console.log('Hello Gulp!') 
});

edited Aug 24 '17 at 15:38

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answered May 01 '17 at 07:04

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Is it possible to use npm run watch instead of gulp? – Ahmed C Oct 21 '21 at 20:05

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Apr 07 '18 at 21:26

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I also had this issue. I created the gulpfile.js file through explorer so it was incorrectly named gulpfile.js.txt which prevented the gulp command finding it. This only became obvious when I opened the project in a text editor and I saw the extension.

answered Apr 07 '18 at 21:26

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thank man. I spelled it fulpfile.js and wondering why the heck it is giving me that error :D – Santosh Feb 15 '20 at 10:13

score 1 · Answer 4 · answered Jan 08 '20 at 04:06

I encountered same problem in Laravel 6. I solved it by steps:

npm init
npm install --save-dev gulp
npx mkdirp yourProjectName
npm install --save-dev gulp

Create a gulpfile:Using your text editor, create a file named gulpfile.js in your project root with these contents:

function defaultTask(cb) {
  // place code for your default task here
  cb();
}

exports.default = defaultTask

Full Resource here: https://gulpjs.com/docs/en/getting-started/quick-start

Hope this helps ypu

score 0 · Answer 5 · answered Aug 12 '19 at 07:13

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Thanks for creating this issue, I also had it. The fix for me was to put gulpfile.js in the root directory.

answered Aug 12 '19 at 07:13

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score 0 · Answer 6 · answered Oct 25 '19 at 14:08

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After running 'yo' to create your new project, use 'cd' command to jump to the the root directory of your new project, then you can run 'gulp' commands.

answered Oct 25 '19 at 14:08

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score 0 · Answer 7 · answered Nov 14 '19 at 00:14

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My gulpFile.js was not in my root directory as expected!

I had to find the file, change to that directory, and then run gulp forever --react. (I have a React project.)

answered Nov 14 '19 at 00:14

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score 0 · Answer 8 · answered Mar 20 '21 at 15:13

You must have saved the project files in a subfolder instead of current folder.

Which baseline packages do you want to target for your component(s)?: SharePoint Online only (latest) Where do you want to place the files?: Use the current folder

If you have selected "Create a subfolder with solution name"

Then change the directory cd "path of the project" Then run

gulp trust-dev-cert

gulp serve

score 0 · Answer 9 · answered Jan 20 '22 at 20:59

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gulpfile.js > 
const gulp = require('gulp')
gulp.task('style', function () {
console.log(1)
}
> gulp style > 1 // true

answered Jan 20 '22 at 20:59

Otabek Komilov

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See "[Explaining entirely code-based answers](https://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/392712/128421)". While this might be technically correct it doesn't explain why it solves the problem or should be the selected answer. We should educate along with helping solve the problem. – the Tin Man Jan 29 '22 at 22:56

score 0 · Answer 10 · answered Jun 05 '23 at 12:32

Things to consider before running gulp task runner:

gulp filename should be gulpfile.js

gulpfile.js should be in root folder

make sure all tasks performing related libraries are installed eg: gulp-concat, gulp-concat gulp-minify-css

minify css snippet :

var autoprefix = require('gulp-autoprefixer');
var minifyCSS = require('gulp-minify-css');
var concat = require('gulp-concat');
var gulp = require('gulp');


gulp.task('styles', async function () {
    gulp.src(['src/styles/*.css'])
        .pipe(concat('styles.css'))
        .pipe(autoprefix('last 2 versions'))
        .pipe(minifyCSS())
        .pipe(gulp.dest('build/styles/'));
});

Run the required task from root folder where gulfile.js exists

score -1 · Answer 11 · answered Jun 08 '20 at 13:34

If you have the gulpfile in your root directory and there are the tasks so maybe the problem is the version.

I ran gulp -v and the output was:

CLI version: 2.3.0
Local version: 3.9.0

To fix it I ran npm install - gulp@3.9.0 to keep both the same and the error:

No gulpfile found

Stopped to be shown

No gulpfile found

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