NPM : how to source ./node_modules/.bin folder?

Question

I have a problem on npm installation

I have created a project say project A

cd ~/projectA
npm install sails

but sails command is not fo

Answer 1

I can give you an inelegant solution, which is working for me. I just exported my path in my .bashrc file.

export PATH="$PATH:./node_modules/.bin"

Edit: It's been a while, but I have changed my strategy to use npm scripts instead. In the above case, setup package.json as follows:

"scripts": {
    "sails": "sails"
}

Which you can then run with

npm run sails

or with arguments

npm run sails -- <args>

Answer 2

In my ~/.bashrc, I have the following:

function nbin {
  local dir;
  dir=$(npm bin)
  if [ -d "$dir" ]; then
    ( # subshell to not change this shell's $PATH
      PATH=$dir:$PATH
      eval "$@"
    )
  else
    echo "\"$dir\" is not an npm binary directory." >&1
    return 1
  fi
}

I can then run executable foo in the .bin directory as:

nbin foo