npm command 'serve ' not found, although it is installed

Question

I have installed serve with npm as "npm install serve -g" and also with yarn "yarn global add serve", but when I try to run "serve -s build" it says that "Command 'serve' not found.

Bess

it should work, can you try to uninstall and reinstall it using npm? – Nostology

Still doesn't work. But I managed to install it locally (only to my project folder) with npx – Bess

okay you can may be change global installation for node_module ref: #5927172 may be this can help you out – Nostology

Answer 1

You should not install the packages globally.Try to do the following-

npm uninstall -g serve 
npm i -S serve

Let me know if this works.

Stipple

this didn't work for me but npx serve did – Doctorate

For those wondering like I did: the -S used to be the save option. It added the package to your dependencies. Now the -S has been removed. The install command adds the package by default. In case you don't want to save, use the --no-save option. – Cadena

Answer 2

I had same problem too and this helped me to fix it so try this after installing serve;

 npx serve -s build 

or

npx serve -s build -p 8000  

(8000 = it depends by your choice) I don't know why but this worked for me

Deprecative

This worked for me too – Wessling

Answer 3

None of these above answers worked for me, so this is what works for me :

• sudo su
• npm install -g serve

Installing as root helps globally installing serve

Pains

Nothing above worked for me but this one worked. Thanks! – Mustard

Answer 4

Make sure to have this in your .bashrc or .zshrc

if you're using Yarn:

export PATH="$PATH:$(yarn global bin)"

if you're using NPM:

export PATH="$(npm bin -g):$PATH"

So that the shell would know where to look for executables such as serve, npx, live-server etc that are installed globally.

Make sure to reload your shell config:

source ~/.bashrc // or ~/.zshrc

Lawton

This solution worked for me, even for other react components I had to do the same thing (Ubuntu) – Walther

Answer 5

If anyone still gets the problem, try this:

npm uninstall -g serve
npm i -S serve
yarn global add serve

Bria

Answer 6

I faced the same problem, what I did was run the command yarn serve -s build If you got it installed with npm then you can just add npm before the suggested command

Pneumonectomy

Answer 7

you can use yarn serve ./dist replace serve ./dist

Cull

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