Express command not found

Question

For some reason after installing Express globally on my machine with npm install -g express if I cd into a directory and try to run express I get t

Answer 1

I was having this challenge for a number of days. After deep search, I learned that one has to read every available resource especially from the parent source [in this case EXPRESSJS.COM]. Here is a quick fix.

Beginning with version 4.0+ you don't necessarily need to install express-generator if you are running Node 8.2+. Simply run

npx express-generator

The express-generator will run just the way it runs when you run:express

For more details see Getting Started

Happy reading and research hours.

Answer 2

You need to run:

npm install -gd express-generator

The original express with cli, now the cli split into separate express-generator package. Originally generated by the project is running express node app.js, because httpserver relevant code in app.js, and now this part of the code to the project directory bin/www below, app.js retain only achieve app logic code, you need to run the bin/www. Just a very simple application and refinement package dependency version changes.

Answer 3

With the release of Express 4.0.0 it looks like you need to do sudo npm install -g express-generator.

Answer 4

I have been recently trying to install express-generator , however it would give out ,

$ zsh : command not found : express

It was after i did

$ sudo npm install -g express
$ sudo npm install -g express-generator

But then , i saw the console log of the npm install commnand

/usr/local/Cellar/node/13.1.0/bin/express -> /usr/local/Cellar/node/13.1.0/lib/node_modules/express-generator/bin/express-cli.js

which gave a hint that the executable express is in the bin folder.

So the solution is : Open up ~/.zshrc or ~/.bashrc and export the path as follows:

export PATH=/usr/local/Cellar/node/13.1.0/bin:$PATH

It works now.