Getting an error in yargs-parser after installing gulp

[Eric Rasmussen]

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What were you expecting to happen?

I installed Node, then installed gulp-cli. I'm following the "Quick Start" page, and expect the gulp command lines to work.

What actually happened?

Running gulp --version after installing gulp-cli and gulp results in the following output:

C:\Users\eric\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\gulp-cli\node_modules\yargs\node_modules\yargs-parser\index.js:20
        ;(aliasevar camelCase = require('camelcase')
                    ^^^^^^^^^

SyntaxError: Unexpected identifier 'camelCase'
    at internalCompileFunction (node:internal/vm:77:18)
    at wrapSafe (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1288:20)
    at Module._compile (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1340:27)
    at Module._extensions..js (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1435:10)
    at Module.load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1207:32)
    at Module._load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1023:12)
    at Module.require (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1235:19)
    at require (node:internal/modules/helpers:176:18)
    at Object.<anonymous> (C:\Users\eric\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\gulp-cli\node_modules\yargs\yargs.js:5:16)
    at Module._compile (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1376:14)

Node.js v20.11.0

Please give us a sample of your gulpfile

I haven't even gotten that far yet in the Quick Start guide. :)

Terminal output / screenshots

I ran npm install --global gulp-cli. I then created a project with npm init and within the project ran npm install --save-dev gulp. The next step in the guide says to run gulp --version and that's where I experience the issue with the yargs-parser module.

C:\Sites\Code>gulp --version
C:\Users\eric\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\gulp-cli\node_modules\yargs\node_modules\yargs-parser\index.js:20
        ;(aliasevar camelCase = require('camelcase')
                    ^^^^^^^^^

SyntaxError: Unexpected identifier 'camelCase'
    at internalCompileFunction (node:internal/vm:77:18)
    at wrapSafe (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1288:20)
    at Module._compile (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1340:27)
    at Module._extensions..js (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1435:10)
    at Module.load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1207:32)
    at Module._load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1023:12)
    at Module.require (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1235:19)
    at require (node:internal/modules/helpers:176:18)
    at Object.<anonymous> (C:\Users\eric\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\gulp-cli\node_modules\yargs\yargs.js:5:16)
    at Module._compile (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1376:14)

Node.js v20.11.0

Please provide the following information:

• OS & version [e.g. MacOS Catalina 10.15.4]: Windows 11 23H2
• node version (run node -v): v20.11.0
• npm version (run npm -v): 1.4.0
• gulp version (run gulp -v): I wish this worked. :)

Additional information

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