I am using a TFS build project to build a Visual Studio 2015 project that contains a gulpfile for compiling SASS among other things. I am trying to understand the sequence of events using MSBuild T...

In a usual Windows command line I see: C:\Users\me\myProject\UI> node --version v8.12.0 C:\Users\me\myProject\UI> npm --version 6.11.3 C:\Users\me\myProject\UI> where node C:\Program Fi...

I have a typescript project in visual studio 2017 that has a gulpfile.js in it. I Want to run my tasks when i click on run, build or clean buttons. Is there anyway to do this? I know i can do this...

I'm new to Webpack, Visual Studio, and Task Runner, but these are what I have been told to install/use at work so I'm struggling through figuring out how to make it all work. I just used NPM to glo...

I am trying to run gulp watch by setting bindings property of watch to 'After Build' in Task runner explorer. I tried to run application, during build it triggered my watch task from gulp and it's ...

I'm using VS2015 and Gulp. I open the Task Runner Explorer and hit refresh, and this shows up in the log: Failed to run "C:\Projects\Test\Gulpfile.js"... cmd.exe /c gulp --tasks-simple Error: `lib...

The Task Runner Explorer just throws errors for me in Visual Studio 2015 RC and I just want to disable it and run my gulp file from the command line like I always have. Is there a way to turn off t...

I am trying to setup a development environment using Visual Studio for an Angular 2 typescript project, using a visual studio node.js project. If I use the command line, everything works fine, my...

I have a gulp task which accepts arguments using yargs. From the command line I do something like gulp scaffold:thing --name=someName --path=some/path-to/{thing}. I would like to be able to call th...

I have applied Gulp on my project made in VS2015 Community. But when I use the Task Runner Explorer, a dialog box appears saying "Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation." I tried ...

I am using visual studio task runner (2015) to run a Gulp task bound to before build. I have set it up so that when the gulp tasks fails it sends exit code 1 and at the end it says "Process termi...

I have some Gulp tasks to do the typical clean, build, release actions for a website. Nothing particularly unusual in my mind. (In fact it's very similar to Aurelia TypeScript skeleton.) Most of t...

I have a problem with the node_modules folder created by npm. The specified path, file name, or both are too long. The fully qualified file name must be less than 260 characters, and the director...

I want to apply a Gulp watcher to my LESS files so Gulp will create css files whenever a LESS file gets saved. How can I do this? It doesn't seem to be correct/sufficient to write something like t...