Installing gulp and its dependencies

The procedure to install gulp and its dependencies is provided in this topic.

About this task

The procedure to install gulp and its dependencies described in this topic is applicable to windows environment. If you are working on a different operating system, then you need to download the appropriate binaries, change the commands, and directory paths accordingly.
Note:

The nodejs libraries are not available for AIX. You must build the AngularJS extensions on Linux or Windows environments, where the required version of node and gulp are installed.

Procedure

  1. Download node.js from https://nodejs.org/dist/v0.10.28/node-v0.10.28-x86.msi.
  2. Install node.js in a folder. For example, C:\NodeJS.
  3. Open the command line interface with administrator privileges.
  4. Run the command: npm install -g gulp@v3.9.0.
  5. Create a folder <STORE_BUILD_FOLDER>. For example, C:/StoreBuild.
  6. Copy the gulp files from <RUNTIME>/nodebuild/wsc/ to <STORE_BUILD_FOLDER>.
  7. Run the command: cd <STORE_BUILD_FOLDER>.
  8. Run the command: npm update.