How to solve : No gulpfile found

In this post we are going to discuss about how to solve no gulpfile found error. In our previous post we have explained about Configuring System for using TypeScript where we have explained how to install gulp (A JavaScript Task Runner).

Now after installing gulp using npm install gulp -g when you run gulp in the command line you might get an error as No gulpfile found error.

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

touch gulpfile.js

Now after adding gulpfile.js if we run gulp command again we will get a new error, Task 'default' is not in your gulpfile, as shown below.

The above error means that we do not have a default task in our gulpfile.js. Every gulpfile needs a default task to run when gulp is executed without any arguments. So we are going to add a default task in our gulpfile.

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

Now when we run the gulp command we get the following output. Thus our gulp process is up and running.

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