Semantic-UI: Error: Cannot find module 'gulp-help'

I’m following the instructions at http://learnsemantic.com/guide/expert.html.

Here’s a minimal version of what I did:

bower install semantic-ui
npm install -g gulp
cd bower_components/semantic-ui
gulp

What I get is:

Error: Cannot find module 'gulp-help'
    at Function.Module._resolveFilename (module.js:338:15)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:280:25)
    at Module.require (module.js:364:17)
    at require (module.js:380:17)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/Users/rspeer/code/irepad/bower_components/semantic-ui/gulpfile.js:12:18)
    at Module._compile (module.js:456:26)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:474:10)
    at Module.load (module.js:356:32)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:312:12)
    at Module.require (module.js:364:17)

Installing the module named “gulp-help” didn’t help, and neither did going back to 1.0. Someone mentioned that they resolved this on #691, but didn’t say how.

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State: closed
Created 10 years ago
Comments: 26 (9 by maintainers)

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Update the README with info found in #1324 I cloned https://github.com/Semantic-Org/Semantic-UI/ fresh for my docs folder and had never run `npm install` in the freshly cloned folder before. Hopefull... — committed to mokolodi1/Semantic-UI-Docs by mokolodi1 8 years ago

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I had this error and a bunch of others all looping around. In the end I had to do this:

Delete node_modules
Delete package-lock.json
Call the following:

npm cache clean
npm install --save semantic-ui

Note: On npm v5+ you will need to call npm cache clean --force

+13

tomasswood on Jul 12, 2017

The answer is that I missed the step of running npm install inside the Semantic directory, not just in my project directory.

rspeer on Nov 29, 2014