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Gulp 3 is broken on Node 12

See original GitHub issue

What were you expecting to happen?

Gulp does anything useful

What actually happened?

Gulp throws the following error:

fs.js:27
const { Math, Object, Reflect } = primordials;
                                  ^

ReferenceError: primordials is not defined
    at fs.js:27:35
    at req_ (/tmp/node_modules/natives/index.js:143:24)
    at Object.req [as require] (/tmp/node_modules/natives/index.js:55:10)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/tmp/node_modules/gulp/node_modules/graceful-fs/fs.js:1:37)
    at Module._compile (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:759:30)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:770:10)
    at Module.load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:628:32)
    at Function.Module._load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:555:12)
    at Module.require (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:666:19)
    at require (internal/modules/cjs/helpers.js:16:16)

If using a TypeScript gulpfile with ts-node and typescript, the error looks like the following instead:

/tmp/node_modules/natives/index.js:143
    fn(internalBinding)(nm.exports, cachingRequire, nm, nm.filename, '<no dirname available>')
                       ^
ReferenceError: primordials is not defined
    at fs.js:27:35
    at req_ (/tmp/node_modules/natives/index.js:143:24)
    at Object.req [as require] (/tmp/node_modules/natives/index.js:55:10)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/tmp/node_modules/gulp/node_modules/graceful-fs/fs.js:1:37)
    at Module._compile (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:759:30)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:770:10)
    at Module.load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:628:32)
    at Function.Module._load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:555:12)
    at Module.require (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:666:19)
    at require (internal/modules/cjs/helpers.js:16:16)

Please post a sample of your gulpfile (preferably reduced to just the bit that’s not working)

This reproduces with an empty gulpfile

What version of gulp are you using?

3.9.1

What versions of npm and node are you using?

npm: 6.9.0 node: 12.0.0

Issue Analytics

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Created 4 years ago
Comments:6 (3 by maintainers)

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phatedcommented, Apr 24, 2019

Gulp 3 is no longer supported.

1reaction

remilletcommented, May 1, 2019

Having the exact same problem. Using:

node: v12.1.0 npm: 6.9.0 gulp CLI version: 2.2.0 gulp Local version: 4.0.1

[exec] fs.js:27 [exec] const { Math, Object, Reflect } = primordials; [exec] ^ [exec] [exec] ReferenceError: primordials is not defined [exec] at fs.js:27:35 [exec] at req_ (/Users/remillet/dev/src/nuxeo/addons/nuxeo-platform-spreadsheet/nuxeo-platform-spreadsheet-web/src/main/js/node_modules/natives/index.js:143:24) [exec] at Object.req [as require] (/Users/remillet/dev/src/nuxeo/addons/nuxeo-platform-spreadsheet/nuxeo-platform-spreadsheet-web/src/main/js/node_modules/natives/index.js:55:10) [exec] at Object.<anonymous> (/Users/remillet/dev/src/nuxeo/addons/nuxeo-platform-spreadsheet/nuxeo-platform-spreadsheet-web/src/main/js/node_modules/graceful-fs/fs.js:1:37) [exec] at Module._compile (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:759:30) [exec] at Object.Module._extensions..js (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:770:10) [exec] at Module.load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:628:32) [exec] at Function.Module._load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:555:12) [exec] at Module.require (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:666:19) [exec] at require (internal/modules/cjs/helpers.js:16:16)