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

I ran into the same problem since I had changed my global path of npm packages before.

Here's how I fixed it :

When I installed nodemon using : npm install nodemon -g --save , my path for the global npm packages was not present in the PATH variable .

If you just add it to the $PATH variable it will get fixed.

Edit the ~/.bashrc file in your home folder and add this line :-

export PATH=$PATH:~/npm

Here "npm" is the path to my global npm packages . Replace it with the global path in your system

Answer 2

Just in case for those using Windows, you don't need sudo

npm i -g nodemon

Answer 3

FOR WINDOW USERS

I tried every possible way but nothing worked for me.

What worked was:- npx nodemon server

FOLLOWING WILL BE THE OUTPUT:-

Answer 4

If you want to run it locally instead of globally, you can run it from your node_modules:

npx nodemon

Answer 5

Make sure you own root directory for npm so you don't get any errors when you install global packages without using sudo.

procedures:- in root directory

sudo chown -R yourUsername /usr/local/lib/node_modules
sudo chown -R yourUsername /usr/local/bin/
sudo chown -R yourUsername /usr/local/share/

So now with

npm i npm -g 

you get no errors and no use of sudo here. but if you still get errors confirm node_modules is owned again

/usr/local/lib/

and make sure you own everything

ls -la

now

npm i -g nodemon

will work!

Answer 6

npx nodemon filename.js

This will work on macOS BigSur