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shal
shal

Reputation: 3024

browserify is installed, but is not available in command line

I install Browserify:

npm install -g browserify

then I try to run it:

$ browserify main.js > bundle.js

and Windows says

'browserify' is not recognized as an internal or external command

Why is that? The Browserify page promises it will work, but it does not.

Upvotes: 8

Views: 12259

Answers (6)

Girish Bari
Girish Bari

Reputation: 29

As of December 12th 2021

Use this command in cmd to convert your file :

npx browserify index.js -o bundle.js

at index.js, place your file name instead of this.

Upvotes: 2

Joao
Joao

Reputation: 191

Try this:

npx browserify index.js -o bundle.js

NPX is a little-known command that is used to run binaries from modules that are installed locally in node_modules.

Upvotes: 6

Jesus is Lord
Jesus is Lord

Reputation: 15399

First, I installed browserify: npm i -D browserify

Then I ran node .\node_modules\browserify\bin\cmd.js instead of browserify.

For example, instead of:

browserify index.js -o bundle.js

I ran:

node .\node_modules\browserify\bin\cmd.js index.js -o bundle.js

Upvotes: 7

Vikita
Vikita

Reputation: 261

I had similar problem and resolved it by editing my Environmental Variables.

In other words I added the path to where my npm folder holding browserify was to list of Environmental Variables, PATH.

Hope this helps:)

Upvotes: 1

Sofia Khwaja
Sofia Khwaja

Reputation: 2069

I resolved this issue by

npm uninstall browserify --save
npm install browserify -g
npm install browserify-shim -- save

Upvotes: 8

shal
shal

Reputation: 3024

I found a problem. I had a corrupted installation of npm package, which did not create "browserify.cmd" file for some reason. I reinstalled it and now it works fine.

Upvotes: 1

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