Installing gulp in Windows

Install Gulp.txt

1. Install nodejs. https://nodejs.org/en/

2. Check npm (node package manager) is installed via command prompt:
    $ npm
    
3. Install gulp:
    $ npm install gulp --global
    
4. In relevant project folder, create 'gulpfile.js':

    // build flow that copies MyNiceProgram.exe to another
    // directory (with forced folder creation and overwrite)
    var gulp = require('gulp');
    var exefile = 'some/bin/path/MyNiceProgram.exe';
    gulp.task('build', function(){
        gulp.src(exefile).pipe(gulp.dest('../../Binaries/'));
    });
    gulp.task('default', ['build'], function(){
        gulp.watch(exefile, ['build']);
    });

5. Run gulp:
    $ gulp

npm install gulp-cli -g
npm install gulp -D
touch gulpfile.js
gulp --help

@lamjar To use touch on Windows you have to use it with redirection operator:
touch>gulpfile.js

there's no such thing as touch on windows...

Windows command;
copy NUL gulpfile.js

there's no such thing as touch on windows...

Then how comes I've just run it ? :-) Yes, there is a trick involved. https://sourceforge.net/projects/unxutils/files/unxutils/current/ - grab UnxUtils.zip. It's old and kind of pretends to be Unix too much :-) but what I have is it's wbin with libfl.a, libfl.lib and sh.exe added and wbin is in my path. Judging by the sizes I also have UnxUpdates.zip (from http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/) merged in, albeit with different timestamps. It's an old bag that people have been copying around for ages. There might be some commands that don't work but simple things like touch do.

Why so complicated to install a modern tool? Gulp should be fixed to live in Windows. Also see https://stackoverflow.com/questions/33051213/installing-gulp-to-windows-10 .

Thanks

there's no such thing as touch on windows...

there is now with bash