Deploying to App Engine generates error with gulp?

Question

What I wrote in terminal to deploy as usual:

gcloud app deploy

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The error I get:

Application startup error:

> [email protected] start /app
> gulp

sh: 1: gulp: not found

npm ERR! Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64
npm ERR! argv "/nodejs/bin/node" "/nodejs/bin/npm" "start"
npm ERR! node v6.9.5
npm ERR! npm  v3.10.10
npm ERR! file sh
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! errno ENOENT
npm ERR! syscall spawn
npm ERR! [email protected] start: `gulp`
npm ERR! spawn ENOENT
npm ERR! 
npm ERR! Failed at the [email protected] start script 'gulp'.
npm ERR! Make sure you have the latest version of node.js and npm installed.
npm ERR! If you do, this is most likely a problem with the meanjs package,
npm ERR! not with npm itself.
npm ERR! Tell the author that this fails on your system:
npm ERR!     gulp
npm ERR! You can get information on how to open an issue for this project with:
npm ERR!     npm bugs meanjs
npm ERR! Or if that isn't available, you can get their info via:
npm ERR!     npm owner ls meanjs
npm ERR! There is likely additional logging output above.

npm ERR! Please include the following file with any support request:
npm ERR!     /app/npm-debug.log

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Using Mean.js : https://github.com/meanjs/mean

Can't find the npm debug log.

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P.S.: I did install gulp globally with

$ sudo npm install gulp-cli -g

Answer 1

First, you don't need to use sudo.

You can fix your error by typing this in terminal:

npm config set prefix ~/npm

# add this to your .bashrc (or .zshrc or whatever you are using)
export PATH="$PATH:$HOME/npm/bin"

Then re-install without sudo.

Hope this helps!