After updating VS 2015 to Update 2 gulp is failing executed by Task Runner Explorer, but it works fine from console.
The error is known, but I don't know how it is related to VS 2015. It does work well in VS 2013. Does VS using a different javascript interpreter than nodeJs or VS 2013 do?
It is a Windows 7, Node.js 5.10.1.
Error:
Failed to run "C:\..\Gulpfile.js"...
cmd.exe /c gulp --tasks-simple
C:\..\node_modules\gulp-inject\src\inject\index.js:127
startTag,
^
SyntaxError: Unexpected token ,
at Module._compile (module.js:439:25)
at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:474:10)
at Module.load (module.js:356:32)
at Function.Module._load (module.js:312:12)
at Module.require (module.js:364:17)
at require (module.js:380:17)
at Object.<anonymous> (C:\..\node_modules\gulp-inject\index.js:4:28)
at Module._compile (module.js:456:26)
at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:474:10)
at Module.load (module.js:356:32)
Failed to run "C:\..\package.json"...
Failed to run "C:\..\Gulpfile.js"...
cmd.exe /c gulp --tasks-simple
C:\..\node_modules\gulp-inject\src\inject\index.js:127
startTag,
^
SyntaxError: Unexpected token ,
at Module._compile (module.js:439:25)
at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:474:10)
at Module.load (module.js:356:32)
at Function.Module._load (module.js:312:12)
at Module.require (module.js:364:17)
at require (module.js:380:17)
at Object.<anonymous> (C:\..\node_modules\gulp-inject\index.js:4:28)
at Module._compile (module.js:456:26)
at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:474:10)
at Module.load (module.js:356:32)
Update:
I had this problem recently too - I found updating VS to use my global node install fixed it for me:
https://github.com/VirtoCommerce/vc-community/issues/247#issuecomment-174454440