Node npm windows file paths are too long to install packages

Question

Situation

I want to use gulp and related front-end tool chains in Windows-hosted development environments. I\'m hitting a wall trying to use gulp pl

Answer 1

This is what finally fixed it for me...

After installing gulp and receiving errors, run... gulp

When you see a package failing, install it manually with --no-bin-link.

sudo npm install {package} --no-bin-link

Where {package} is the package that is having problems.

After all of this I was receiving an Error in plugin 'gulp-notify' Message: not found: notify-send.

This was due to a plugin issue with Vagrant. You can either turn off notifications..

export DISABLE_NOTIFIER=true;

Or install the plugin with Vagrant.

Best of luck.. I spent a long time on this, even after following a lot of people's recommendations.

Brandon