无法在Windows（node.js）上运行gulp和karma

Question

I am making a MEAN course, and in one of the homeworks I have to work with gulp and karma for automated testing.

I am trying to run karma and gulp according to the instructions given in HMW 4.1 but I always have an error. Here are my steps:

1. Download and Extract the zip into a folder
2. Change to the directory HMW4 (where the homework is) and run npm install
3. Change the directory to node_modules\\gulp\\bin and run gulp watch
4. Windows open the JavaScript file instead of running. Why?

With Karma, I did something similar:

1. After trying to run gulp and failing, change to the directory node_modules/karma/bin
2. Run karma start
3. I get the following command like error 'karma' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.

What am I missing or doing wrong ?

Answer 1

I installed Ubuntu LTS 14.04 in a VM using virtual box and indeed now everything seems to work perfectly. I would like to point out that running this code on Windows or in any other version of LInux is likely to bring problems, but in the specific Ubuntu version I previously mentioned, it works as intended.

I shall now close this question, hopefully it will help others.