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'gulp' is not recognized as an internal or external command

I am trying to use Gulp and Node.Js to stream my process for minifying and concatenating CSS/JS files for production.

Here is what I have done.

  1. I installed Node.Js on my Windows 7 machine.
  2. Installed Gulp globally using this command npm install -g gulp
  3. Then I added a new User variable called NODE_PATH set it to %AppData%\npm\node_modules

After closing and re-opening my command line, I tried to run a gulp task from the command line (i.e. gulp css). But that give me the following error

'gulp' is not recognized as an internal or external command

How can I get this to work?

When I opened the following path using the search bar in windows, %AppData%\npm\node_modules I see the following two folders

gulp
gulp-cli

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I've tried to add %AppData%\npm\node_modules to the Path variable on my system variable, but it did not take it because that variable reached it's max allowed character limit.

I removed couple of paths from my Path variable and added ;C:\Users\[MyWindowsUserName]\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules

but still not working.

I even tried to set the path at run time using this command

PATH=%PATH%;C:\Users\[MyWindowsUserName]\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules then run gulp and still the same issues.

What am I missing here? What else do I need in order to get this to work?

Solution

  • I solved the problem by uninstalling NodeJs and gulp then re-installing both again.

    To install gulp globally I executed the following command

    npm install -g gulp