Installed Gulp CLI but it won't run gulp

[no1melman]

So I did completely fresh install

npm install gulp-cli

Then created simple gulpfile.js

let gulp = require('gulp');

gulp.task('build', cb => {
    console.log('Building');
    cb();
});

gulp.task('watch', gulp.series('build', cb => {
    console.log('Watching');
    cb();
}));

Then executed

C:\Users____\Documents\Git\trash
λ gulp -v
[23:23:44] CLI version 1.2.2

C:\Users____\Documents\Git\trash
λ gulp watch
[23:23:49] Local gulp not found in ~\Documents\Git\trash
[23:23:49] Try running: npm install gulp

But obviously if I install gulp then it's not going to work because only gulp-cli has series and parallel functions

What is the issue here?

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Does it require me to pull down 4.0 branch from gulp???

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So I cloned git clone https://github.com/gulpjs/gulp.git --branch 4.0 --single-branch and ran npm install in that gulp directory, then when I did gulp build it worked.

I don't remember having to do this the last time I installed the gulp-cli

[heikki]

Fairly recent instructions here: https://www.liquidlight.co.uk/blog/article/how-do-i-update-to-gulp-4/

[no1melman]

Yeah that's where I got the idea for cloning from, mainly because

npm install 'gulpjs/gulp.git#4.0' --save-dev

Failed for me with some horrible errors about authentication etc..

[phated]

not sure why you have that in single-quotes. gulp has always required a local version, and gulp-cli is no exception. It's just how node works.

[no1melman]

That may be so, but when I first installed gulp-cli I removed all gulp packages first. So it must have added them itself, now it just isn't doing that hence the question.

I copied that from the blog post, is not supposed to have single quotes then?