Visual Studio 2015 RC Gulp task runner not detecting tasks

Question

I have a Gulpfile.js in Visual Studio 2015 RC with a single default task. For some reason it is not showing up in the Task Runner Explorer.

I had added gulp

Answer 1

In the release candidate, editing the devDependencies in package.json and then saving does not result in the packages being automatically restored/added to the project as I had expected. After saving package.json the packages were listed under NPM in the Dependencies node in Solution explorer, but with a caption "not installed" next to the package names. Manually invoking Restore Packages, as shown in the screenshot, causes Visual Studio to install the pacakges.

After the node modules had been installed the gulp tasks were detected by the Task Runner Explorer.

I hope this helps someone else.