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JavaScript Gulp Basics Welcome to Gulp.js Installing Gulp

Jonathan Grieve
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Jonathan Grieve
Treehouse Moderator 91,253 Points
Posted by Jonathan Grieve
Jonathan Grieve
Treehouse Moderator 91,253 Points

I think Gulp is installed. but I'm not sure what these warnings mean

So I went through the process of installing Gulp and I reckon it's installed....

if I type gulp -v into Git Bash i get this

$ gulp -v
[16:14:31] CLI version 3.9.1
[16:14:31] Local version 3.9.1

But in the midst I got some strange looking warnings. when i was installing the npm projects and dependencies.

$ npm install -g gulp
npm WARN deprecated graceful-fs@3.0.8: graceful-fs v3.0.0 and before will fail on node releases >= v7.0. Please update to graceful-fs@^4.0.0 as soon as possible
. Use 'npm ls graceful-fs' to find it in the tree.
npm WARN deprecated lodash@1.0.2: lodash@<3.0.0 is no longer maintained. Upgrade to lodash@^4.0.0.
npm WARN deprecated graceful-fs@1.2.3: graceful-fs v3.0.0 and before will fail on node releases >= v7.0. Please update to graceful-fs@^4.0.0 as soon as possible. Use 'npm ls graceful-fs' to find it in the tree.

Anyone know what these mean and how I can fix them? Thanks :)

1 Answer

akak
akak
29,445 Points
akak
akak
29,445 Points

Hi,

It looks like Gulp uses dependencies that are deprecated. It's a warning and everything should work just fine. Gulp itself has to update dependencies it relays on. Nothing you can do about it on your side. graceful-fs started to give a lot of warning in many projects lately. But as you can see it's about a future release. The message itself states that it won't work when node 7 cames out. Right now we have 6.2 so we're quite safe :)

Bottom line: ignore it :)

Cheers!

Jonathan Grieve
Jonathan Grieve
Treehouse Moderator 91,253 Points
Jonathan Grieve
Jonathan Grieve
Treehouse Moderator 91,253 Points

Okay cool! :)

But how do I update when the time comes?

Maybe npm update? npm update gulp? Thanks :)

akak
akak
29,445 Points
akak
akak
29,445 Points

I would suggest to do 

npm install david -g  #add sudo on mac/linux

It's a great package update app. Then from time to time 

 david --global

to check if you have outdated global packages. If that's the case you do

david update --global #add sudo on mac/linux

In my experiance it works better than internal npm "update" command that sometimes doesn't work as it supposed to :)

EDIT: You can of course specify that you want to update only Gulp.