Gulp error missing script: build in MVC project - visual-studio

Question

I have given a project which works ok on other PCs but on mine it doesnt work.
When I hit build, it reports in node logs error missing script: build
Steps that I've done
installed nodejs
installed gulp globally and locally (inside of mvc project)
*Warning: I have different versions of nodejs and gulp then it specified in solution.
here is the package.json:
{
"name": "test",
"version": "1.0.0",
"private": true,
"scripts": {
"css": "gulp"
},
"engines": {
"node": "5.9.1",
"npm": "3.7.3"
},
"devDependencies": {
"gulp": "^3.9.1",
"gulp-concat": "^2.6.0",
"gulp-less": "^3.1.0",
"gulp-minify-css": "^1.2.4",
"gulp-sourcemaps": "^2.3.0",
"gulp-uglify": "^2.0.0",
"gulp-util": "^3.0.7",
"merge-stream": "^1.0.0"
}
}
so when I hit command npm run gulp it says that gulp script doesnt found - expected.
but when I hit npm run css Im gettin an error:
0 info it worked if it ends with ok
1 verbose cli [
1 verbose cli 'C:\\Program Files\\nodejs\\node.exe',
1 verbose cli 'C:\\Program Files\\nodejs\\node_modules\\npm\\bin\\npm-cli.js',
1 verbose cli 'run',
1 verbose cli 'css'
1 verbose cli ]
2 info using npm#6.13.1
3 info using node#v13.3.0
4 verbose run-script [ 'precss', 'css', 'postcss' ]
5 info lifecycle tiptimes#1.0.0~precss: tiptimes#1.0.0
6 info lifecycle tiptimes#1.0.0~css: tiptimes#1.0.0
7 verbose lifecycle tiptimes#1.0.0~css: unsafe-perm in lifecycle true
8 verbose lifecycle tiptimes#1.0.0~css: PATH: C:\Program Files\nodejs\node_modules\npm\node_modules\npm-lifecycle\node-gyp-bin;C:\Work\tiptimes\MvcApplication\node_modules\.bin;C:\Program Files\ConEmu\ConEmu\Scripts;C:\Program Files\ConEmu;C:\Program Files\ConEmu\ConEmu;C:\Program Files\Microsoft MPI\Bin\;C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Oracle\Java\javapath;C:\WINDOWS\system32;C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem;C:\WINDOWS\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\;C:\WINDOWS\System32\OpenSSH\;C:\Program Files\Intel\WiFi\bin\;C:\Program Files\Common Files\Intel\WirelessCommon\;C:\Program Files\dotnet\;C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\130\Tools\Binn\;C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\Client SDK\ODBC\170\Tools\Binn\;C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SQL Server\150\DTS\Binn\;C:\ProgramData\chocolatey\bin;C:\Program Files\Microsoft VS Code\bin;C:\Program Files\Git\cmd;C:\Program Files\Seq\;C:\Program Files\Seq\Client\;C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\Client SDK\ODBC\130\Tools\Binn\;C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SQL Server\140\Tools\Binn\;C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\140\Tools\Binn\;C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\140\DTS\Binn\;C:\Program Files\nodejs\;C:\Program Files (x86)\dotnet\;C:\Users\Stefan Cvetkovic\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WindowsApps;C:\Users\Stefan Cvetkovic\.dotnet\tools;C:\Program Files (x86)\Rico Suter\NSwagStudio\;C:\Users\Stefan Cvetkovic\AppData\Roaming\npm;C:\Users\Stefan Cvetkovic\.dotnet\tools
9 verbose lifecycle tiptimes#1.0.0~css: CWD: C:\Work\tiptimes\MvcApplication
10 silly lifecycle tiptimes#1.0.0~css: Args: [ '/d /s /c', 'gulp' ]
11 silly lifecycle tiptimes#1.0.0~css: Returned: code: 1 signal: null
12 info lifecycle tiptimes#1.0.0~css: Failed to exec css script
13 verbose stack Error: tiptimes#1.0.0 css: `gulp`
13 verbose stack Exit status 1
13 verbose stack at EventEmitter.<anonymous> (C:\Program Files\nodejs\node_modules\npm\node_modules\npm-lifecycle\index.js:332:16)
13 verbose stack at EventEmitter.emit (events.js:219:5)
13 verbose stack at ChildProcess.<anonymous> (C:\Program Files\nodejs\node_modules\npm\node_modules\npm-lifecycle\lib\spawn.js:55:14)
13 verbose stack at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:219:5)
13 verbose stack at maybeClose (internal/child_process.js:1027:16)
13 verbose stack at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:285:5)
14 verbose pkgid tiptimes#1.0.0
15 verbose cwd C:\Work\tiptimes\MvcApplication
16 verbose Windows_NT 10.0.18363
17 verbose argv "C:\\Program Files\\nodejs\\node.exe" "C:\\Program Files\\nodejs\\node_modules\\npm\\bin\\npm-cli.js" "run" "css"
18 verbose node v13.3.0
19 verbose npm v6.13.1
20 error code ELIFECYCLE
21 error errno 1
22 error tiptimes#1.0.0 css: `gulp`
22 error Exit status 1
23 error Failed at the tiptimes#1.0.0 css script.
23 error This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above.
24 verbose exit [ 1, true ]
Here are my files in the root of MVCApp
https://i.imgur.com/QOo2OLE.png
Im using vs2017
Any help would be appreciated!

Answer 1

Since it works on other PC, double check their nodejs version and make sur it matches yours.
Also, you either want to run gulp directly (gulp yourGulpTask) or add node script within package.json and run them with npm. Ex (add scripts node in your package.json file):
"scripts": {
"build": "gulp build",
"test": "gulp test",
"watch": "gulp watch",
},
With the previous scripts declaration, if the the gulp task build, test and watch are define within the gulp.js file, you could run the following :
npm run build
npm run test
npm run watch
When gulp is ran without arguments, it is trying to run the default task. In your case, the css script is calling gulp without argument, therefore calling the default gulp task([ 'precss', 'css', 'postcss' ]).
To debug, make sure you can run these gulp-tasks independently
gulp precss
gulp css
gulp postcss
It feels like your precss works fine. Your css task is bugging and we never get to postcss.
The meaningfull error on your log is this one :
verbose lifecycle tiptimes#1.0.0~css: unsafe-perm in lifecycle true
Most likey confirming the nodejs version issue :: npm run test - unsafe-perm in lifecycle
On a quick note, running npm run gulp would be weird. Should always give meaningfull name to your scripts... Gulp.js conventions for tasks names