nodemon not working: -bash: nodemon: command not found

Question

I\'m on a Mac running El Capitan. I have node v5.6.0 and npm v3.6.0. When I try to run nodemon, I get:

-bash: nodemon: command not found

I th

Answer 1

In macOS, I fixed this error by installing nodemon globally

npm install -g nodemon --save-dev 

and by adding the npm path to the bash_profile file. First, open bash_profile in nano by using the following command,

nano ~/.bash_profile

Second, add the following two lines to the bash_profile file (I use comments "##" which makes it bash_profile more readable)

## npm
export PATH=$PATH:~/npm