Gulp exited witch code 1 in VS2017 - Build failed - node.js

Question

I have an error when I try to build mvc solution.
The command "gulp" exited with code 1
When I go to output window I can see this
1> ReferenceError: primordials is not defined
1> at fs.js:47:5
1> at req_ (C:\Work\tiptimes\MvcApplication\node_modules\natives\index.js:143:24)
1> at Object.req [as require] (C:\Work\tiptimes\MvcApplication\node_modules\natives\index.js:55:10)
1> at Object.<anonymous> (C:\Work\tiptimes\MvcApplication\node_modules\graceful-fs\fs.js:1:37)
1> at Module._compile (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1095:14)
1> at Object.Module._extensions..js (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1124:10)
1> at Module.load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:975:32)
1> at Function.Module._load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:816:12)
1> at Module.require (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:999:19)
1> at require (node:internal/modules/cjs/helpers:93:18)
I setup global variable to the NODE_PATH to reference npm/modules.
Here is my list of dependencies:
"engines": {
"node": "5.9.1",
"npm": "3.7.3"
},
"devDependencies": {
"gulp": "^3.9.1",
"gulp-concat": "^2.6.0",
"gulp-less": "^3.1.0",
"gulp-minify-css": "^1.2.4",
"gulp-sourcemaps": "^2.3.0",
"gulp-uglify": "^2.0.0",
"gulp-util": "^3.0.7",
"merge-stream": "^1.0.0"
}
}