NPM live-server: command not found

Question

I install live-server globally with:

npm install -g live-server but for some reason it is not be found and I get the following error

bash: live-server: command not found after command live-server

Everything is correctly installed:

/Users/username/npm-global/bin/live-server ->
/Users/username/npm-global/lib/node_modules/live-server/live-server.js
[email protected] /Users/username/npm-global/lib/node_modules/live-server
├── [email protected]
├── [email protected]
├── [email protected] ([email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected])
├── [email protected] ([email protected])
├── [email protected] ([email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected])
├── [email protected] ([email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected])
├── [email protected] ([email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected])
├── [email protected] ([email protected])
├── [email protected] ([email protected])
└── [email protected] ([email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected])

What am I missing here?

Cayes

Possible duplicate of BrowserSync : Command not found after installing browser-sync – Hare

What does npm bin -g return? What does echo $PATH return? – Hare

npm bin -g returns /Users/davidknowles/npm-global/bin (not in PATH env variable) – Cayes

Add /Users/davidknowles/npm-global/bin to your path, as I said in my answer. npm is probably installed to another directory. (See which by running which npm.) – Hare

echo $PATH returns /usr/local/bin:/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/opt/X11/bin – Cayes

npm bin -g solved it for me That let me know my path with: /Users/MYUSERNAMEHERE/.npm-packages/bin (not in PATH variable) I opened .zshrc and added this line: export PATH=$PATH:/Users/MYUSERNAMEHERE/.npm-packages/bin Refresh your .zshrc and live-reload works I am obviously using zsh but you could apply this to bash as well I think problems arise when people install using brew versus manually and that is why the solutions vary with regard to paths as manually and homebrew install to different directories – Pushy

Answer 1

Add the path to your npm installation to your path. Just add this line at the end of .bash_profile. Run it in bash first, to make sure it works before putting it in .bash_profile

export PATH=$PATH:/Users/username/npm-global/bin

Hare

This did the job. Thanks. – Cayes

Worked for me as well, Thanks – Tarnish

If you're using zsh, you can add in your ~/.zshrc: path+=('/Users/valydia/.npm-global/bin') export PATH – Mod

Answer 2

The main problem is that node js does not know the path of the installed modules ..

Type this command to get the path of all the global modules.

npm bin -g

It will display the path (C:\Users\gf\AppData\Roaming\npm) and also show (not in PATH env variable)

Copy the path and add it to the path variable of your computer (just like you do while installing other software) for eg : In Windows 7 - Right click on my computer ->select properties -> select advanced system settings -> environment variables

Double click on the Path variable

In the variable value first type a semicolon and paste the path which you copied and that's it every thing should work now..

Roseannroseanna

It worked but only as a system variable in my case. Thanks for the help! :-) – Brucine

Answer 3

In my case (Ubuntu with npm installed from package) live-server module was not installed. It helps:

npm install -g live-server

Melva

Answer 4

Just a note, don't just blindly copy and paste the path /Users/username be sure you do the

npm bin -g

as explained by others and get that actual path into export PATH=$PATH:/YourActualPathHERE

Ashly

Will I need to do this every time I reset my computer if I don't add that to my .bash_profile ? – Aachen

Answering my own question, the answer is yes, yes you do unless you add to your .bash_profile or .zshrc . – Aachen

Answer 5

try to install as root/Administrator

sudo npm install -g live-server

Hope this will solve your problem.. its works for me...

Jurassic

Answer 6

If you on windows 10.

Assuming Nodejs is installed, npm is installed, GitBash terminal is installed

1.Install Linux subsystem for windows: Open PowerShell and type:

Enable-WindowsOptionalFeature -Online -FeatureName Microsoft-Windows-Subsystem-Linux

3. Open gitBash.exe terminal and type: $ npm bin -g

4. Copy the Path: C:\Users\YourMachineName\AppData\Roaming\npm

5.Click the search icon and type Environment...

6.Choose Edit environment variables for your account

7. Go back to Your code Editor, or another terminal and test the work.
8. There is a probability that Powershell will not work. That is why you should select GitBash as your default terminal if you develop a website using VSCode on Windows.

Brucine

Answer 7

Update to http-server. You can install globally using

npm install --global http-server

You can find the docs at https://www.npmjs.com/package/http-server

Dominion

Answer 8

Just try to use live-server in your project as a dev-dependency. Yes, it is not the recommended way. But it is a shortcut and will save your precious time.

Kiele

Answer 9

My npm live-server works well until it suddenly stopped without any error. I then must change to use live-server of Visual Studio code instead. After read many article i found that my path variable missing C:\Windows\System32\ variable. Check carefully your path environment variable to make sure you have all the addresses needed.

Widescreen

Answer 10

npm install -g http-server
    
http-server

Set-ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned -Scope Process

npm install -g live-server

live-server

Squire