Error with gulp serve: Requiring external module babel-register - gulp

Question

Running yeoman generator "Webapp", I'm getting an error when running gulp serve. Here are the following versions for a better background :
sw_vers && node -e 'console.log(process.platform, process.versions)'
ProductName: Mac OS X
ProductVersion: 10.11.3
BuildVersion: 15D21
darwin { http_parser: '2.6.0',
node: '5.2.0',
v8: '4.6.85.31',
uv: '1.7.5',
zlib: '1.2.8',
ares: '1.10.1-DEV',
icu: '56.1',
modules: '47',
openssl: '1.0.2e' }
node -v
v5.2.0
gulp -v
Requiring external module babel-register
CLI version 3.9.1
Local version 3.9.1
Finally the gulp serve error:
gulp serve
Requiring external module babel-register
\node_modules/babel-core/lib/transformation/file/options/option-manager.js:372
throw new Error("Couldn't find preset " + JSON.stringify(val) + " relative to directory " + JSON.stringify(dirname));
Does anybody have any idea what the problem could be, any suggestions?
Here's what I've tried:
npm uninstall gulp
npm install gulp
//with global flag and not
npm install --save-dev gulp
//installing babel-register manually w/wo global flag and --save-dev
npm install babel-register
npm cache clean
Also read through several of other posts with similar problem with no success, some of the following :
gulp serve: Failed to load external module babel-core/register
Requiring external module babel/register #726
babel was renamed to babel-core #727
Angular-Fullstack Requiring external module babel-register

Answer 1

yep, after running npm install --global gulp-cli I run gulp -v and I’ve got
Failed to load external module babel-register
Requiring external module babel-core/register
CLI version 1.2.1
Local version 3.9.1
then I updated CLI version to 3.9.1 (same as I have locally) but it did not help.
but when I downgrade CLI version to 3.9.0 it started work correct and message “Failed to load external module babel-register” not shown anymore.
Looks like 3.9.1 is buggy.
Run:
npm install -g gulp#3.9.0
hopefully it'll help you.

Answer 2

maybe this can help.
create .babelrc in your projects, and put this:
{
"presets": [
"es2015"
]
}

Answer 3

I have tried many ways explaining above, including
npm install --global gulp
npm install --save-dev gulp
etc for installation of gulp, but finally found solution by running below command, which change gulp to something gulp-cli on phpStorm command line.
npm install -D babel

Answer 4

npm install babel-cli babel-preset-es2015

Answer 5

me helped when i deleted and again installed both same version as global as local in the project directory the gulp and deleted and reinstal the babel-register.
sudo npm uninstall -g gulp
npm uninstall gulp
sudo npm install -g gulp#3.9.0
npm install gulp#3.9.0
npm uninstall babel-register
npm install babel-register