I recently wanted to install a new NPM module (that is Gulp). I followed the getting started guide and ran the needed command but it didn’t worked and I felt desperate… but I finally found the solution!
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The "gulp" command is not found or does not work on node_modules (npm)
To give you a little context: I ran the following command for installing Gulp (a node package module) globally:
npm install -g gulp
The installation succeed but when I ran this gulp command in the command line I got a "gulp: command not found" error. It appeared that it installed “Gulp” in my local folder that is /Users/YOURUSERNAME/node_modules and not in the global NPM folder.
You can check this by running this command: npm root or npm root -g, which was returning my personal directory /Users/YOURUSERNAME/node_modules and not the expected /usr/local/lib/node_modules.
After some trial & error, I finally found the solution. You have to change the “npm config prefix” like so:
npm config set prefix /usr/local
Then when I re-ran npm root -g, I got the correct root folder: /usr/local/lib/node_modules
When I reinstalled Gulp globally (with the -g param) it finally worked and appeared that it was now correctly installed in the global NPM folder. Yeay!
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This didn't work for me, but I found another solution that did.
export NVM_DIR="$HOME/.nvm"
[ -s "$NVM_DIR/nvm.sh" ] && \. "$NVM_DIR/nvm.sh" # This loads nvm
[ -s "$NVM_DIR/bash_completion" ] && \. "$NVM_DIR/bash_completion" # This loads nvm bash_completion
PATH="$HOME/.npm/bin:$PATH"
PATH="./node_modules/.bin:$PATH"
I just added the lines that didn't exist in my ~/.zshrc file.
I have created a directory for global installations in the $HOME directory instead of using sudo for the installations in the /usr. Below are the steps I followed and installed gulp but seeing command not found in the VS code project. Can someone please let me know what is the issue here?
`Make a directory for global installations in the $HOME directory,
mkdir ~/.npm-global
Configure npm to use the new directory path,
npm config set prefix '~/.npm-global'
Open or create a /.zsh_profile file and add this line,/.npm-global/bin:$PATH
export PATH=
Back on the command line, update your system variables,
source ~/.zsh_profile`
I have created a directory for global installations in the $HOME directory instead of using sudo for the installations in the /usr. Below are the steps I followed and installed gulp but seeing command not found in the VS code project. Can someone please let me know what is the issue here? `Make a directory for global installations in the $HOME directory, mkdir ~/.npm-global
Configure npm to use the new directory path, npm config set prefix '~/.npm-global'
Open or create a
/.zsh_profile file and add this line, export PATH=/.npm-global/bin:$PATHBack on the command line, update your system variables, source ~/.zsh_profile`
I resolved it. I was updating the incorrect file - the path should be updated in ~/.zshrc file but not ~/.zsh_profile
Thank you my brother!)
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You´re a livesaver. Thanks a lot!