Don't require a global gulp install

I’ve currently got gulp in the devDependencies section of my package.json:

...
"gulp": "^3.9.0",
...

But when I go to run npm run gulp I get:

npm ERR! Linux 3.19.0-21-generic
npm ERR! argv "/usr/bin/node" "/usr/bin/npm" "run" "gulp"
npm ERR! node v0.12.5
npm ERR! npm  v2.11.2

npm ERR! missing script: gulp
npm ERR! 
npm ERR! If you need help, you may report this error at:
npm ERR!     <https://github.com/npm/npm/issues>

npm ERR! Please include the following file with any support request:
npm ERR!     /home/somewhere/npm-debug.log

I’m trying to get things to the point where I don’t have to install all the various nodejs-based tools globally on my build server. Would also help when onboarding so that people don’t keep running aground of missing tools.

[jmm]

@contra He’s trying to do npm run gulp from the shell.

@atrauzzi npm run is for arbitrary entries in package.json’s scripts. You can do what @contra said, or I think you might be able to get close to what you want with something like this in package.json (but then options passing gets a bit gnarly):

"scripts": {
  "gulp": "gulp"
}

[yocontra]

You can npm install gulp locally and access the CLI via node_modules/.bin/gulp (which npm scripts will already do for you if you put gulp in a script) - not sure what the problem is here? You absolutely don’t need to install it globally.