How to Install Gulp.js on Linux Mint 19/18

Gulp is an toolkit helps developers for the automation of painful workflow during the development. This tutorial will help you to install Gulp on Linux Mint operating systems.

Step 1 – Installing Node.js

First of all, you need to install node.js on your system. Use following set of commands to add node.js PPA in your Linuxmint system and install it.

curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_12.x | sudo -E bash -
sudo apt-get install nodejs

Make sure you have successfully installed node.js and NPM on your system

node --version
npm --version

Step 2 – Install Gulp.js on Mint

After installation of Node.js and Npm on your system, use the following commands to install Gulp CLI globally on your system.

npm install -g gulp-cli

You have successfully installed the Gulp CLI tool on your system. Switch to your existing node.js application directory or create a new application with the below commands:

mkdir my-project && cd my-project
node init

Then add the Gulp module to your project

npm install --save-dev gulp

All done, Let’s check the installed version of Gulp CLI on your system and Gulp module in your application with the following command.

gulp --version

CLI version: 2.2.0
Local version: 4.0.2