Global Node modules not installing correctly. Command not found

Question

I am having a problem installing global node modules and everything I find online says the solve is just adding -g. Which is not the problem. I believe it\'s a linking issue

Answer 1

The problem I had was missing the binaries because the user specific .npmrc file in my home directory had bin-links set to false, though the default is true.

Just in case this is your problem check that none of your .npmrc files have it set to false.

Then re-installing all modules will create the binaries at the prefix so your PATH can see them.

Answer 2

1. Add the following line to your ~/.bash_profile

   export PATH="$HOME/.npm/bin:$PATH"
   

2. Load bash profile

   bash -l
   

Answer 3

For Windows users

Add this to your path: "%AppData%\npm"