Let’s start a new node project in our folder and add a package.json by using command below:

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npm init

Time to install gulp using npm. First globally to access the gulp command and then locally for our package.json .

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npm install gulp -g
npm install gulp --save-dev

By default gulp looks for a gulpfile.js to run. Let’s create a simple gulpfile.js.

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var gulp = require('gulp');

gulp.task('default', [], function() {
  console.log("Hellow World");
});

In your terminator run the gulp command below:

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gulp

You should see:

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Hello Gulp

Using gulpfile ~/YOUR_DIRECTORY/gulpfile.js
Starting 'default'...
Hello Gulp! You are mighty fine.
Finished 'default' after ...

Congratulations creating your first gulp build script. So far so good, That’s it!!! See ya!!! :)