sh: husky: command not found

Question

I've setup a node project with husky but when my collegue tries to run npm install on his Mac he gets the following error :

[email protected] prepare
husky install

sh: husky: command not found
npm ERR! code 127
npm ERR! path /Users/X/Desktop/Workspace/project
npm ERR! command failed
npm ERR! command sh -c husky install

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     /Users/X/.npm/_logs/2021-04-12T13_07_25_842Z-debug.log

These are the relevant package.json parts:

{
    "scripts": {
        "prepare": "husky install"
    },
    "devDependencies": {
        "husky": "^5.2.0",
    }
}

I thought this would be enough for husky to be installed when running npm install, but it's not. What am I missing?

Megawatt

This error is also thrown by npm ci if the NODE_ENV is set to "production" pre-install – Fullblooded

Answer 1

I've been able to solve the problem by upgrading to latest Husky version (7.0.1, from 5.2.0).

Git was also helpful, and told me that the files weren't executables. (Git V 2.24.1)

So I give them executable rights :

chmod +x PATH_TO_HUSKY_FILE

You'll need to execute this command for every hooks

Habitue

Answer 2

If you are using nvm, you might want to create a file called .huskyrc in your home directory and add the following lines of code to it:

~/.huskyrc

export NVM_DIR="$HOME/.nvm"
[ -s "$NVM_DIR/nvm.sh" ] && \. "$NVM_DIR/nvm.sh"

Polite

Also, don't forget to install husky on the devDependencies. – Solar

Does this apply to Windows? If so, where is this home file exactly? – Moonseed

I go the following error message when trying to commit from IntelliJ (worked fine directly from terminal): .husky/pre-commit: 4: npm: not found. Your suggestion fixed my issue. Thanks! – Bobker

Commits were working fine for me using CLI, but Tower.app was complaining with an error. After I added this Tower was able to commit. – Fransen

Please explain how this answers the original question, because as far as I can tell this is completely unrelated. – Despite

Answer 3

Faced this issue in Github Desktop.

solved it by quit Github Desktop and re-open it.

Cowper

So simple. Love it. Thank you 🙏 – Consistency

This fixed it on VSCode as well. – Andrewandrewes

Answer 4

I was struggling with the same exact problem for hours. Finally, I could install dependencies and start working on my project by doing this:

1. Temporarily remove the "prepare": "husky install" script from the package.json file.
2. Run npm i (npm install). Dependencies installed successfuly.
3. Add again the "prepare" script that you removed in step 1.
4. Run again npm i to install the husky git hooks, so husky can do its job from now on.

Bannockburn

Thank you so much. Any idea the reasoning behind why we have to remove prepare and why husky isn't built in a way to avoid this? – Rematch

Incredible, but this works. – Hawkeyed

If using VSCODE you might need to close and open it again as well (in macOS at least). – Crist

Answer 5

It worked in my terminal but not in VSCode version control. So had to force quite the vscode app and restarting it worked.

Thoughtout

Yep, this fixed it in vscode. Why...like most broken things, it doesn't pay to figure it out. – Imagination

It fixed in my case, MacOS Ventura M2, zsh (oh-my-zsh) with fnm and starship. – Coppage

+1 since it worked in my Ubuntu terminal even though it's not working in VSC. Quitting and opening VSC didn't help. But at least I know that lint-staged and husky can work on my system if I don't use VSC. – Nichani

Force quitting VS Code and restarting it fixed it for me too... Weird... Intel Mac OS Catalina, zsh (oh-my-zsh) – Triumvir

Answer 6

I believe it could be version specific issue. Install version 6, npm i [email protected] --save-dev, and it should work as the husky doc says.

Apparently, when I did npm i husky --save-dev, it was installing "husky": "^0.8.1" for me for some strange reason, giving me the exact same error: sh: husky: command not found.

Method 1:

Update manually, in your package.json:

{
    "scripts": {
        "prepare": "husky install",
        "create-hook": "husky add .husky/pre-commit \"npm test\"",
    }
}

Then, run npm run prepare && npm run create-hook.

It should create .husky directory with .pre-commit file in it.

Method 2:

npx husky install

npm set-script prepare "husky install"

npx husky add .husky/pre-commit "npm test"

Birdiebirdlike

Answer 7

I was able to fix this by providing an explicit location for husky

  "scripts": {
    "prepare": "node_modules/.bin/husky-run install"
  },

Emelinaemeline

Answer 8

What .huskyrc needs to do is:

1. Check if there is a .nvmrc file in the working directory
2. Run the nvm.sh script
3. Run nvm use, so all node related executables (eg: yarn) will be ready to use

Thus, here is a version of .huskyrc that fulfil those requisites:

export NVM_DIR="$HOME/.nvm"

if [ -f .nvmrc ] && [ -s "$NVM_DIR/nvm.sh" ];
then
  . "$NVM_DIR/nvm.sh"
  nvm use
fi;

Weathering

Instead of adding those to my ~/.huskyrc, I added it directly to the project/.husky/pre-commit & project/.husky/pre-push since my team is also using nvm. – Adduce

Answer 9

In case you're facing this issue while installing the production dependencies you can use this solution

npm set-script prepare '' && npm install --omit=dev

Staples

This is good for production because it bypasses the unnecessary husky setup – Abstruse

npm set-script prepare doesn't work in newer versions of npm, it should be replaced witih npm pkg delete scripts.prepare – Teocalli

Answer 10

For peoples in Windows using WebStorm, Gitkraken etc... if you encounter this error, try to setup C:\Program Files\Git\bin for Path in Environment Variables System. It may help you. Do not forget to restart IDE/terminal after it.

Keelson

Answer 11

Using Lerna

When I upgraded husky from version 4 to 8 there was information todo first pre commit manually. For this purpose pre-commit bash script was generated in .husky directory.

What I had todo was simply run the command included in this file:

lerna run precommit --concurrency 2 --stream

Manion