gulp is not recognized as an internal or external command

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I am trying to use Gulp and Node Js to stream my process for minifying and concatenating CSS JS files for production   Here is what I have done    I installed Node Js on my Windows 7 machine  Installed Gulp globally using this command npm install -g gulp Then I added a new User variable called NODE PATH set it to  AppData  npm node modules   After closing and re-opening my command line  I tried to run a gulp task from the command line  i e  gulp css   But that give me the following error   gulp  is not recognized as an internal or external command   How can I get this to work   When I opened the following path using the search bar in windows    AppData  npm node modules I see the following two folders  gulp gulp-cli     I ve tried to add  AppData  npm node modules to the Path variable on my system variable  but it did not take it because that variable reached it s max allowed character limit   I removed couple of paths from my Path variable and added  C  Users  MyWindowsUserName  AppData Roaming npm node modules  but still not working   I even tried to set the path at run time using this command  PATH  PATH  C  Users  MyWindowsUserName  AppData Roaming npm node modules then run gulp and still the same issues   What am I missing here  What else do I need in order to get this to work

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I had the same problem on windows 7  You must edit your path system variable manually   Go to START -  edit the system environment variables -  Environment variables -  in system part find variables  Path  -  edit -  add new path after     to your file gulp cmd directory some like   C  Users YOURUSERNAME AppData Roaming npm  -  click ok and close these windows -  restart your CLI -  enjoy

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I was having the same exception with node v12 13 1   Downgraded node to v10 15 3 and it works fine now

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The best solution  you can manage the multiple node versions using nvm installer  then  install the required node s version using below command  nvm install version   Use below command as a working node with mentioned version alone   nvm use version   now  you can use any version node without uninstalling previous installed node

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If you have mysql install in your windows 10 try uninstall every myqsl app from your computer  Its work for me  exactly when i installed the mysql in my computer gulp command and some other commands stop working and then i have tried everything but not nothing worked for me

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You need to make sure  when you run command  install npm -g gulp   it will create install gulp on C   directory    that directory should match with whatver npm path variable set in your java path    just run path from command prompt  and verify this  if not  change your java class path variable wherever you gulp is instaled    It should work

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In my case  this problem occured because I did npm install with another system user in my project folder before  Gulp was already installed globally  After deleting folder  node modules  in my project  and running npm install with the current user  it worked

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Go to My Computer gt Properties gt Advance System Settings gt Environment Variables gt   Under the variables of Administrator edit the PATH variable  amp  change its value to  C  Users Username AppData Roaming npm   Note  The username in the path will be the current Admin user s name that you have logged in with

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I just encountered this on Windows 10 and the latest NodeJS  14 15 1    In my case our admins have our profiles and true  quot home quot  folder remotely mount onto our work machine s    Npm wanted to put its cache over on the remote server and that has worked until this release  I was unaware that npm has a  npmrc file available   I added one to my actual machine s C  Users my-id folder and it contains  prefix C  Users my-id nodejs npm cache c  Users my-id nodejs npm-cache  I also added these paths to my PATH environment variable  I went to the APPDATA folder on my work machine and the remote  quot home quot  server and deleted all the npm related Roaming folders   I deleted the node modules folder in my project  I closed all open windows and reopened them   I brought up a command prompt in my project dir and re inited npm and reinstalled the modules I wanted  After that everything is rolling along

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Sorry that was a typo  You can either add node modules to the end of your user s global path variable  or maybe check the permissions associated with that folder  node  modules   The error doesn t seem like the last case  but I ve encountered problems similar to yours  I find the first solution enough for most cases  Just go to environment variables and add the path to node modules to the last part of your user s path variable  Note I m saying user and not system   Just add a semicolon to the end of the variable declaration and add the static path to your node module folder    Ex c  path to node module   Alternatively you could   In your CMD  PATH  PATH  C   path to node module   EDIT  The last solution will work as long as you don t close your CMD  So  use the first solution for a permanent change

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I solved the problem by uninstalling NodeJs and gulp then re-installing both again   To install gulp globally I executed the following command  npm install -g gulp

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I had similar issue when I installed locally initially w o -g   I reinstalled with -g  global  and then it worked   npm install -g gulp   you should run gulp from folder where gulpfile js is available

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