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Japesh Thakur
Japesh Thakur

Reputation: 521

Npm command not found in visual studio code

Please tell me how i can solve it. Iam using window 7 32 bit:

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Upvotes: 52

Views: 203138

Answers (14)

Mega Aleksandar
Mega Aleksandar

Reputation: 50

For me it was as simple as NOT using sudo before the npm command - so, if you were trying to copy/paste some commands from the net, try them without the sudo.

Upvotes: 0

Elad Avron
Elad Avron

Reputation: 1505

Since terminal.integrated.shellArgs.linux is now deprecated, the current solution is as follows:

  1. Open your preferred settings.json
  2. Add the following: 
    "terminal.integrated.profiles.linux": {
   "bash": {
      "path": "bash",
      "icon": "terminal-bash",
      "args": ["-l"]
   }
},
"terminal.integrated.defaultProfile.linux": "bash"
  3. Restart VSCode

That's it, you're done.

Upvotes: 1

Naresh
Naresh

Reputation: 155

If you just installed your node while your VScode was running. Restart your vscode it should start working.

Upvotes: 9

IoTooy
IoTooy

Reputation: 1

I had this issue too and I'm running QubesOS which uses virtualization. I could manage to get it running until I'd a standalone VM. That solved my problem. Just mentioning for the ppl using virtualization like virtual box or VMware.

Upvotes: 0

Aravinth Rajan
Aravinth Rajan

Reputation: 113

As you're aware, you can configure your environment variables in windows at 2 levels.

  1. At user level
  2. At system level

When VS code is started, it picks the variables in path at a user level and not at system level because you haven't run the application as Administrator.

Environment Variables Just copy-paste your node path from System Variables to User Variables

This does the trick for windows.

Thanks.

Upvotes: 4

Dermo909
Dermo909

Reputation: 178

I needed to kill the terminal in VS Code and restart a new terminal to get npm to show as installed.

Upvotes: 4

Justin
Justin

Reputation: 1059

For me, restarting VS code and even my PC didn't work, but after restarting VS code via "reload" (not restart, not refresh) from ctrl+shift+P, then in the top right of the terminal clicking the leftmost button and clicking "kill terminal" then restarting VS code it worked.

Upvotes: 0

Alferd Nobel
Alferd Nobel

Reputation: 3949

On Mac OS , I switched to the zsh and got this fixed. These following steps fixed the issue :

  1. On your VsCode in Mac : shift + command + P .
  2. On the Prompt > type : Terminal: Select Default Profile , then "Click it". Note, as you type you will find this option in the auto-complete .
  3. Click the option for zsh or your desired shell.
  4. Restart VSCode .

now npm will work in your vscode terminal.

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Upvotes: 56

surya
surya

Reputation: 97

On mac, I switched the default shell from bash to zsh and it fixed the issue.

Upvotes: 3

Jay Bienvenu
Jay Bienvenu

Reputation: 3293

By default, Visual Studio Code runs shell commands like npm in a loginless shell. If you installed NVM, Visual Studio Code may have no indication where to find npm to run it.

Put the following lines are in .bash_profile: (Note: Not .bashrc.)

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

Add this setting to settings.json:

"terminal.integrated.shellArgs.linux": ["-l"]

Upvotes: 39

Karmavil
Karmavil

Reputation: 993

I'm gonna add an answer just for help others because this question is 2 years old.

If you can run the npm start (NPM SCRIPTS below the Explorer view) but you are not able to launch the command with a shortcut: Then check npm extension is installed and/or enabled for the current workspace/folder.

Otherwise vsCode will not be able to run the script and you're going to get a message in a little box like this 

command 'npm-script.start' not found

Maybe the NPM Scripts View below the explorer is not available without the plugin I'm not sure

Upvotes: 1

Farhad Abdolhosseini
Farhad Abdolhosseini

Reputation: 486

I got this error after having just installed nodejs/npm, and the way i resolved, while still being able to use git bash terminal in vscode was to simply restart my computer (I hadn't done this after node installation).

Upvotes: 16

JIJO JOSEPH
JIJO JOSEPH

Reputation: 375

I too had this issue. To solve this follow the below steps. Make sure you have npm installed - go to command prompt & type npm -v - if a version comes out it's installed, else go to https://nodejs.org/en/ and download same. Then come to vs code and set deafult shell to cmd. to do so, - Press Ctrl+Shift+P and type Select Default Shell - Select Command Prompt. - Press Ctrl+` - Type npm -v and see npm works. :)

Upvotes: 22

Hemant Singh
Hemant Singh

Reputation: 1598

You need to install npm first, https://www.npmjs.com/get-npm and make sure npm command is accessible using terminal/command prompt.

You can also use https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=eg2.vscode-npm-script This extension supports running npm scripts defined in the package.json file and validating the installed modules against the dependencies defined in the package.json.

Upvotes: 1

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