The term ng is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet

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Today  while working through some basic AngularJS Intro  I ran into a problem   I opened PowerShell to get going on the project  NPM worked    I was able to install the Angular using   npm install -g  angular cli   Anytime I tried to run ng  I would get    the term  ng  is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet

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The first path in the path variable needs to be the NPM path. Opening the Node.js command prompt I found that the ng command worked there. I dug into the shortcut and found that it references a command to ensure the first Path variable is NPM. To Fix:

Right Clicked on My Computer (windows)
Selected Advanced System Settings
Clicked "Environment Variables"
Under "Path" variable, made the FIRST value listed %AppData%\npm

Once I did that I was able to close powershell and reopen and all worked.

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All answers are about how to fix it  but the best is to download nodeJs and let the installer add to PATH variable   Version 12 and 13 are too new  so I had to download 11 15 https   nodejs org download release v11 15 0

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Instead of giving  ng serve  command in the Visual Studio code terminal  open angular app path in the command prompt Run as Administrator    Then give  ng serve  command   Then open browser and go to the http   localhost 4200   It works for me

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You just need to close the visual studio code and restart again  But to get the ng command work in vs code  you need to first compile the project with cmd in administrator mode   I was also facing the same problem  But this method resolved it

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Run Powershell or command prompt not as administrator

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Solution Worked For me    Add a path to your environment Variable  C  Users YourPcName AppData Roaming npm   as well as your bin folder of the angular file  present their itself   C  Users YoutPcName AppData Roaming npm node modules angular-cli bin   and then run  ng -v  it will pop up angular cli gui in your Command prompt  Note After running npm i -g  angular cli do restart your command prompt and check if it works otherwise clean cache and repeats the above steps

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You should update node js to latest version  Otherwise uninstall node js and install it again

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This powershell script worked to add the correct setting to my Environment Variable  Path    As a per-user setting    It adds   AppData  npm     and then restart the command line that uses  ng       existingPath    System Environment   GetEnvironmentVariable  Path   User            write-host  existing PATH variable is  existingPath                                                newPath     AppData  npm  existingPath                                               write-host  new      PATH will be      newPath                                                       update here                                                                                           System Environment   SetEnvironmentVariable  Path    newPath   User                   finalPath    System Environment   GetEnvironmentVariable  Path   User               write-host  final    PATH variable is  finalPath

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The problem is NOT the install of the NPM nor the path   If you want to use the  ng  command you need to install the angular-cli  by running the following command  npm install -g  angular cli   https   cli angular io

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exit everything and run npm i -g  angular cli in command prompt   and build your angular app there itself do not build on powershell

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Changing the policy to Unrestricted  worked for me   Set-ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted -Scope CurrentUser

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1 Right Clicked on My Computer  windows  2 Selected Advanced System Settings 3 Clicked  Environment Variables  4 Under  Path  variable  made the FIRST value listed  AppData  npm  Initially   C  Program Files Microsoft MPI Bin   SystemRoot  system32  SystemRoot   SystemRoot  System32 Wbem  SYSTEMROOT  System32 WindowsPowerShell v1 0  C  Program Files TortoiseSVN bin   After path adding  C  Program Files Microsoft MPI Bin   AppData  npm  SystemRoot  system32  SystemRoot   SystemRoot  System32 Wbem  SYSTEMROOT  System32 WindowsPowerShell v1 0  C  Program Files TortoiseSVN bin   One more thing you can try  if error still coming  as below 1 go to project location via command prompt C  Users brijeshray ParentChild  2 Reinstall or update existing angular as   npm install -g angular cli latest  3 Go to computer or PC-- Properties-- Advanced system setting -- Environment Variable -- add a path below  User variable  if  Path  not there     C  Users brijeshray AppData Roaming npm -- save it and restart visual code

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Reinstalling NodeJs is also an option  It will set PATH variable automatically

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Even though the correct answers have been given  But all of these didn t work for me because    My username didn t have the Administrator privileges and I couldn t update the environment variable like suggested in the answers    So for all of    you who face the same issue as me here is what I did   Instead of ng serve  I copy-pasted the complete location path of ng like the following and it worked  So the ng serve command became   C  Users MyUserName AppData Roaming npm ng cmd serve

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I was getting this error in Visual Studio Code while doing ng-build  Running below  command in cmd fixed my issue npm install -g  angular cli latest

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After changing the path you have to restart powershell  You do not need to restart your computer

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In the  Environment Variables   In the  System variables  section  In the  Path  variable and before  C  Program Files  x86  nodejs   add      AppData  npm

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Also you can run following command to resolve  npm install -g  angular cli

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Please also make sure that the node modules folder also exists there in the project directory  If it is not there you will get a similar issue  so please run npm install as well

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For VSCode Terminal First open cmd and install angular-cli as global npm install -g  angular cli  Then update your Environment Variables following this step  win   s    this will open search box Type Edit Environment Variables Open Environment Variables Add  AppData  npm inside PATH Click OK and close   Now you can restart your VSCode and it will work as it will normally do

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I ran the  ng serve  command in the command prompt  It compiled the project successfully  Then whatever changes are saved in VS Code  are automatically refreshed in the browser   PS  I have installed angular globally

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I was using npm  5 5 1  updating it to latest version solved my problem

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Installing angular cli globally solved my problem   npm install -g  angular cli

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If your project name contain  -   Remove it and try  This can cause problem in running  ng

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You can also make sure you run the Command Prompt - or whatever terminal you use - As Administrator  I am using Visual Studio Code and the ng serve command gives me that exact error when not running VS Code as admin

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First setup Node js  then go to your project folder with the command prompt such as D  project and then run this command   npm install -g  angular cli   Now run ng command  This work for me

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Selected Advanced System Settings enter image description here Clicked  Environment Variables  enter image description here Under  Path  variable  made the FIRST value listed  AppData  npm enter image description here I did that Close powershell and reopen  all worked

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I used the following  npm run ng serve  It worked for me without need to set Environment variables  I had to install a typescript after it  npm install typescript  quot  gt  3 4  lt 3 6 quot

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Fix  Running scripts is disabled on this system  Open Powershell       Set-ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned     A    A  YES TO ALL   Done

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I resolved by following the below steps  1 Right click on command Prompt  2 Run as administrator 3 type npm install -g  angular cli

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If you do not have access to Environmental variable  e g  office machines   You can try to run command like this   npm run  lt your angular command gt   it works as well  just need to add npm run before ng command  Example - gt   npm run ng g c shop cart

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Open Edit the system environment variables  In the  Path  and  PS Module Path  variable add   AppData  npm   Run Visual Code as Administrator  It works for me

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Based on the above answers here is the consolidation    Run the command npm install -g  angular cli project version Add the below paths to your environment variables -  System Variables -  Path  For which Admin access is required    C  Users YourPcAccountName AppData Roaming npm C  Users YoutPcAccountName AppData Roaming npm node modules angular-cli bin Make sure the first value listed as  AppData  npm Reopen your command prompt from your project folder and run ng serve

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