oclif doesn't recognise created commands

Question

I'm trying to build a CLI using oclif and it doesn't seem to work for anything I tried. I see a lot of people making it work for them so can maybe someone point me to my issue!

My steps:

 1. mkdir test && cd test
 2. npm init -f
 3. npm i oclif
 4. npx oclif generate my_test //this generates a new cli
 5. cd my_test
 6. npx oclif generate command bob
 7. npm link
 8. npx my_test bob

I always get

 ›   Error: command bob not found

Same if I do ./bin/run bob

However, if I run the test for the bob command, the test passes.

Thank you in advance.

Answer 1

Sorry for being late replying... Intel's answer is almost correct - and until version 6 of npm it actually was. Correct is:

npm run build

Whereas oclif generate command just creates the Typescript file for the command and its test class under src/, above will create its Javascript file into dist/. npm link does probably nothing to your project at all - just creates a symlink pointing to it. npm test makes use of ts-node to directly execute Typescript.

Answer 2

run npm build, then you have it!