无法`gulp install`，导致`Cannot read property 'apply' of undefined`

Question

I have installed NVM and NPM to an EC2 instance using this guide from AWS .

I then install gulp and gulp-cli

npm install --global gulp

npm install --global gulp-cli

Then navigate to my project and run

gulp i

And I get this error

/home/ec2-user/.nvm/versions/node/v4.4.5/lib/node_modules/gulp/bin/gulp.js:129 gulpInst.start.apply(gulpInst, toRun); ^

TypeError: Cannot read property 'apply' of undefined at /home/ec2-user/.nvm/versions/node/v4.4.5/lib/node_modules/gulp/bin/gulp.js:129:19 at nextTickCallbackWith0Args (node.js:420:9) at process._tickCallback (node.js:349:13) at Function.Module.runMain (module.js:443:11) at startup (node.js:139:18) at node.js:968:3

node -v returns v4.4.5

npm -v returns 2.15.5

gulp -v returns

[13:22:47] CLI version 3.9.1

[13:22:47] Local version 4.0.0-alpha.2

I am now stuck and unsure how to get gulp i to run

Answer 1

All over the internet, the proposed solution is to run npm install -g gulp-cli . At first, this didn't work for me, but after closing and opening a new console , it worked.

Answer 2

This error means that gulpInst.start is undefined .

It's impossible to say anything specific without seeing your particular configuration but here are some issues on GitHub related to that:

• https://github.com/gulpjs/gulp-cli/issues/84
• https://github.com/gulpjs/gulp-cli/issues/31
• https://github.com/pattern-lab/edition-node-gulp/issues/61
• https://github.com/pattern-lab/edition-node-gulp/issues/66

Hopefully it will help you get started.