Can't run gulp

[adamwolf]

### Desiderata
- [X] Narthur fixes it
- [ ] Adam confirms it works for him now

After following the instructions in the README with Node 14.19.1, Adam got the following error when running gulp:

ReferenceError: primordials is not defined
    at fs.js:40:5
    at req_ (/Users/wolf/work/beeminder/road/node_modules/natives/index.js:143:24)
    at Object.req [as require] (/Users/wolf/work/beeminder/road/node_modules/natives/index.js:55:10)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/Users/wolf/work/beeminder/road/node_modules/vinyl-fs/node_modules/graceful-fs/fs.js:1:37)
    at Module._compile (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:1085:14)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:1114:10)
    at Module.load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:950:32)
    at Function.Module._load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:790:12)
    at Module.require (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:974:19)
    at require (internal/modules/cjs/helpers.js:101:18)

ADAM: I think I could get around this by downgrading node to 12, but I can't get node 12 to work on my system today. Installing from Homebrew gets me Error: node@12 has been disabled because it is not supported upstream!. asdf and node-build are having problems building it.

Another option seems to be upgrading the gulpfile to Gulp v4.

Verbata: upgrades, gulp,

[saranli]

Could this be related to a local issue? I was able to run gulp with the existing gulpfile with the following versions:

$ node -v v16.13.0 $ npm -v 8.1.0 $ gulp -v CLI version: 2.3.0 Local version: 4.0.2

gulp seems to compile the existing gulpfile in my system even when I use the v4 gulp that is installed locally.

Is there any reason why node could not be upgraded? Just trying to understand the issue so we can decide on how to proceed.

[adamwolf]

thanks @narthur!