Error running gulpfile: "ReferenceError: primordials is not defined"

[magfoto]

Hello,

I have been attempting to customize the front-end, but unable to get the gulp file to run. I am getting the following error:

gulp
fs.js:47
} = primordials;
^

ReferenceError: primordials is not defined
at fs.js:47:5
at req_ (/Users/magfoto/gibberwocky/node_modules/natives/index.js:143:24)
at Object.req [as require] (/Users/magfoto/gibberwocky/node_modules/natives/index.js:55:10)
at Object. (/Users/magfoto/gibberwocky/node_modules/vinyl-fs/node_modules/graceful-fs/fs.js:1:37)
at Module._compile (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1099:14)
at Object.Module._extensions..js (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1153:10)
at Module.load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:975:32)
at Function.Module._load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:822:12)
at Module.require (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:999:19)
at require (node:internal/modules/cjs/helpers:102:18)

Re-downloaded and re-installed, gulp, gibberwocky, and even node and npm, to try and reduce possibility of a setup conflict with node.js on machine. The gulp version i'm using:

gulp -v
[23:54:16] CLI version 3.9.1
[23:54:16] Local version 3.9.1

I discovered other threads who have reported a similar error for other uses of gulp. One had recommended using older versions of gulp. I have also made this attempt with much older versions as well, with no change.

Any advice? For now, I currently manually edit the compiled html file to customize colors of the frontend, but would like to even put new custom js functions added to a list in the microtabs.