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gulp-cli fails if local gulp is 4.0

See original GitHub issue

Within my project’s package.json I have:

json
"dependencies": {
  "gulp": "git+https://github.com/gulpjs/gulp.git#4.0"
}

If I globally install stable gulp (3.X) and run gulp it fails (known issue, ok). But if I globally install gulp-cli it also fails:

bash
$ gulp
[15:59:34] Using gulpfile ~/src/XXX/gulpfile.js

/Users/xxxxxx/.npm-packages/lib/node_modules/gulp-cli/index.js:133
    gulpInst.start.apply(gulpInst, toRun);
                   ^
TypeError: Cannot call method 'apply' of undefined
    at /Users/xxxxxx/.npm-packages/lib/node_modules/gulp-cli/index.js:133:20
    at process._tickDomainCallback (node.js:463:13)
    at Function.Module.runMain (module.js:499:11)
    at startup (node.js:119:16)
    at node.js:906:3

I fail to understand the purpose of gulp-cli if it fails in this scenario. Do I miss something?

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Created 9 years ago
Reactions:1
Comments:11 (3 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

39reactions

rajathmscommented, Nov 30, 2016

@xzegga yep I resolved it , it’s working.

Bring back your CLI version to 1.2.2 it will support gulp 4, and will solve your problem.

to install gulp-cli 1.2.2 run sudo npm install gulp-cli@1.2.2 -g and to install gulp local run npm install 'gulpjs/gulp.git#4.0' --save-dev

when you run gulp -v command

you should get [11:38:36] CLI version 1.2.2 [11:38:36] Local version 4.0.0-alpha.2

13reactions

Niceplacecommented, Nov 12, 2016

I confirm that the solution proposed by @rajathms works !

I did : sudo npm install gulp-cli@1.2.2 -g

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