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Error when running gulp in the git bash terminal #339

Closed solidsoulsolutions closed 10 years ago

solidsoulsolutions commented 10 years ago

I'm a beginner front-end designer and developer (less than 6 months of experience), and I'm working on my first website for my portfolio.

I'm building the project on a Toshiba laptop running Windows 7, and I'm using Google's Web Starter Kit. I had to learn how to set up/install and get a basic understanding of a few new technologies in order to use WSK in my project - Ruby, Sass, Node.js, Git, and Gulp. But other than a very basic understanding of how to set them up, what they are and what they do and how to use them in my project at a very basic level, I'm very much so a novice with all of these new technologies.

I've ran into an issue every time I run the gulp command on my project in my git bash terminal, I get this error message:

$ gulp [09:43:45] Using gulpfile c:\Users\Saint Warhead\Desktop\Current Projects\Lillie Monster\Site-Lillie-Monster\gulpfile.js [09:43:46] Starting 'clean'... [09:43:46] Finished 'clean' after 41 ms [09:43:46] Starting 'default'... [09:43:46] Starting 'styles:components'... [09:44:06] Starting 'styles:scss'... [09:44:06] Starting 'styles:css'... [09:44:11] gulp-size: 'styles:css' total 0 B [09:44:11] Finished 'styles:css' after 4.52 s [09:44:11] gulp-size: 'styles:scss' total 0 B [09:44:11] Finished 'styles:scss' after 4.95 s [09:44:22] gulp-size: 'styles:components' total 67.13 kB [09:44:22] Finished 'styles:components' after 36 s [09:44:22] Starting 'styles'... [09:44:22] Finished 'styles' after 31 μs [09:44:22] Starting 'jshint'... [09:44:35] Starting 'html'... [09:45:06] Starting 'images'... [09:45:28] Starting 'fonts'... [09:45:29] Starting 'copy'...

events.js:74 throw TypeError('Uncaught, unspecified "error" event.'); ^ TypeError: Uncaught, unspecified "error" event. at TypeError () at Transform.emit (events.js:74:15) at Transform.onerror (c:\Users\Saint Warhead\Desktop\Current Projects\Lillie Monster\Site-Lillie-Monster\node_modules\gulp\node_modules\vinyl-fs\node_module s\through2\node_modules\readable-stream\lib_stream_readable.js:540:12) at Transform.emit (events.js:95:17) at Transform. (c:\Users\Saint Warhead\Desktop\Current Projects\Li llie Monster\Site-Lillie-Monster\node_modules\gulp-useref\index.js:80:42) at Array.forEach (native) at Transform. (c:\Users\Saint Warhead\Desktop\Current Projects\Li llie Monster\Site-Lillie-Monster\node_modules\gulp-useref\index.js:68:35) at Array.forEach (native) at Transform. (c:\Users\Saint Warhead\Desktop\Current Projects\Li llie Monster\Site-Lillie-Monster\node_modules\gulp-useref\index.js:46:36) at Array.forEach (native)

Honestly, I have no idea what this error means or what causes it, or how to fix it. And it hasn't really affected my ability to work on the project, at least not that I've noticed. I read through the comments on a few similar issue requests, but the resolutions offered just seem to be a little over my head in terms of understanding and I'm having a hard time figuring out what I need to actually do to fix it, or if it's even necessary if I do fix it? Any advice or assistance you could pass along to this starting out developer would be much appreciated! Thank you so much for your time!

Oh, and here's a link to the remote repository for my project on GitHub if you need to access the source files: https://github.com/solidsoulsolutions/Site-Lillie-Monster

minnsoe commented 10 years ago

In your HTML files, have you changed the useref build comment tags or added any? For example, they look like this:

<!-- build:css styles/components/main.min.css -->
<link rel="stylesheet" href="styles/h5bp.css">
<!-- endbuild -->

The notable features are the build and endbuild keywords in the comments. If you've added, changed, or moved the locations of the files that are referenced between them; then useref may produce an error like the one you've posted.

Check if the file references are still valid and update the paths if not (relative to the app folder). Remove the comments around the linked assets, the <!-- build.. -> and <!-- endbuild --> and build it to see if the error goes away, if it does then it is most certainly caused by useref not being able to locate the assets.

drkanukie commented 10 years ago

This seems a very fragile build system - is there no way to explain this in the comments themselves - I nearly deleted them.

Garbee commented 10 years ago

@drkanukie This is something of the tooling. Once the code is a bit more stable we need to document it so people know what to expect.

solidsoulsolutions commented 10 years ago

The problem was fixed by removing cdn links and instead adding assets directly on my project. For more info on the issue and the solution check out my resolved question on StackOverflow: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/25214549/googles-web-starter-kit-error-running-gulp-in-git-bash-command-line-terminal