Can t get Gulp to run cannot find module gulp-util

Question

On Windows 7  I ve installed gulp as explained here  http   markgoodyear com 2014 01 getting-started-with-gulp     npm install gulp -g In my app folder  npm install gulp --save-dev I create a gulpfile js file    But then  when I try to run gulp  I get this error message   module js 340 throw err          Error  cannot file module  gulp-util  at Function Module  resolveFilename  module js 338 15    etc   But gulp-util is present  in the local app folder  in   node modules     gulp         node modules             gulp-util   Any idea what may be the cause

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In most of the cases  deleting all the node packages and then installing them again  solve the problem   But In my case node modules folder has not write permission

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Linux Ubuntu 18 04 user here   I tried all the solutions on this board to date  Even though I read above in the accepted answer that  From later versions  there is no need to manually install gulp-util    it was the thing that worked for me      maybe bc I m on Ubuntu  I don t know     To recap  I kept getting the  cannot find module  gulp-util   error when just checking to see if gulp was installed by running    gulp --version      again  the  gulp-util  error kept appearing     So  I followed the npm install  package name  advice listed above  but ended up getting several other packages that needed to be installed as well  And one had a issue of already existing  and i wasn t sure how to replace it     I will put all the packages install commands that I had to use here  just as reference in case someone else experiences this problem    sudo npm install -g gulp-util    then I got an error for  pretty-hrtime  so I added that  and then the others as Error  Cannot find module     kept popping up after each gulp --version check     so I just kept installing each one    sudo npm install -g pretty-hrtime sudo npm install -g chalk sudo npm install -g semver --force    without --force  on my system I got an error   EEXIST  file already exists  symlink   --force is not recommended  but idk any other way     sudo npm install -g archy sudo npm install -g liftoff sudo npm install -g tildify sudo npm install -g interpret sudo npm install -g v8flags sudo npm install -g minimist   And now gulp --version is finally showing  CLI version 3 9 1 Local version 3 9 1

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UPDATE  From later versions  there is no need to manually install gulp-util   Check the new getting started page   If you still hit this problem try reinstalling your project s local packages   rm -rf node modules  npm install     OUTDATED ANSWER  You also need to install gulp-util    npm install gulp-util --save-dev   From gulp docs- getting started  3 5       Install gulp and gulp-util in your project devDependencies

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You should install these as devDependencies  - gulp-util - gulp-load-plugins  Then  you can use them either this way   var plugins       require  gulp-load-plugins      Use gulp-util as   plugins util     or this   var util   require  gulp-util

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Try to install the missing module   npm install  module-name

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Any answer didn t help in my case  What eventually helped was removing bower and gulp  I use both of them in my project    npm remove -g bower npm remove -g gulp   After that I installed them again   npm install -g bower npm install -g gulp   Now it works just fine

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If you have a package json  you can install all the current project dependencies using   npm install

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This will solve all gulp problem  sudo npm install gulp  amp  amp  sudo npm install --save del  amp  amp  sudo gulp build

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Same issue here and whatever I tried after searching around  did not work  Until I saw a remark somewhere about global or local installs  Looking in   C  Users YourName AppData Roaming npm gulp  I indeed found an outdated version  So I reinstalled gulp with   npm install gulp --global   That magically solved my problem

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I had the same issue  although the module that it was downloading was different  The only resolution to the problem is run the below command again   npm install

[node.js] Can't get Gulp to run: cannot find module 'gulp-util'

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