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This tutorial runs Gulp via NPM like this:

// package.json
"scripts": {
  "gulp": "./node_modules/gulp/bin/gulp.js"
},

// in your terminal, instead of using gulp, use npm run gulp
npm run gulp

Would this work equally well:

// package.json
"scripts": {
  "gulp": "npm run gulp"
}

IIUC npm will look in the node_modules/gulp/bin directory for the gulp binary?

This tutorial runs Gulp via NPM like this:

// package.json
"scripts": {
  "gulp": "./node_modules/gulp/bin/gulp.js"
},

// in your terminal, instead of using gulp, use npm run gulp
npm run gulp

Would this work equally well:

// package.json
"scripts": {
  "gulp": "npm run gulp"
}

IIUC npm will look in the node_modules/gulp/bin directory for the gulp binary?

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• The point would be, that gulp (from nodes_modules/.bin) may not be on the user's PATH, if it is not installed globally. So npm run gulp would be a clean and portable way to run it. The scripts entry is not needed, though. – pixelistik Commented Feb 3, 2018 at 21:59
• Consider just using npx gulp without using scripts. – zzzzBov Commented Feb 3, 2018 at 22:05

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Yes, you can simply use

// package.json
"scripts": {
  "gulp": "gulp"
}

npm will look in the node_modules/.bin directory, where each installed module creates symlinks to the relevant bin entry points.

But: In this case, you don't even need the entry for gulp. You can run all existing mands in .bin with npm run, without making explicit scriptsentries.

See https://blog.jayway./2014/03/28/running-scripts-with-npm/ for an introduction and details.