ng is not recognized as an internal or external command

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Running windows 7 Professional 32bit   I tried running npm install -g angular-cli both under normal or admin    I also tried adding it to the Enviorment Variables under PATH   C  Users Administrator AppData Roaming npm node modules angular-cli bin ng    with no success also    What am i doing wrong

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I had the same issue of Visual Studio Code not being able to run any ng commands in it's built in terminal.

I added %AppData%\npm to the path in Windows 10, and did not have to reboot, just closed and reopened VS Code and not it sees it.

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I also tried to play with cmd by setting environment variable path  amp  etc  but simple answer is use nodejs command prompt   So you no need to set environment variable path or anything  When you insalled nodejs it will give it s command prompt  by using that you us  ng  command  without any settings

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If you get the error even after following the above step  then try below   Since it is a node script  I am using the below option to create as of now    node C  Users Administrator AppData Roaming npm node modules angular-cli bin ng version  May be symbolic links are required  Not researched further   On Further Research  Set Path as    PATH  C  Users Administrator AppData Roaming npm   In Windows  npm cmd file is in the above path  If the above Environment variable is set  you can execute as  ng version ng init

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For me something was wrong in the PATH enviroment variable  I removed all path related to npm and added at the start of PATH this folder   c  Users  lt your-user-name gt  AppData Roaming npm    Make sure you have   between paths

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For me it works with   npm run ng  lt command gt

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Had the same problem on Windows 10  The user s  Path  environment already had the required  C  Users  user  AppData Roaming npm    path command would not show it  but it did show tons of other paths added earlier by other installations   Turned out I needed to delete some of them from the system s PATH environment variable   As far as I understand this happens because there s a length limit on these variables  https   software intel com en-us articles limitation-to-the-length-of-the-system-path-variable   Probably happens often on dev machines who install lots of stuff that needs to be in the PATH

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I don t have a global Angular install  only project level  One of my projects kept throwing this error while others with same setup worked fine  I just    Removed the node modules folder from the project Ran npm i in the project   Works fine now

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1  Enter below command on command prompt  npm install -g  angular cli   2  Make sure that C  Users  username  AppData Roaming npm this path is not hidden   3  Add C  Users  username  AppData Roaming npm and   C  Users  username  AppData Roaming npm  node modules angular cli bin to both enviroment variable path   4  Open new command prompt and type ng help  It will work

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I solved it few days ago  after having the same problem with other global modules  by adding to    Environment Tables -  System variables -  Path     C  Users Administrator AppData Roaming npm node modules angular-cli bin C  Program Files MongoDB Server 3 2 bin     Note that it must not have any spaces after     That turned out to be my problem

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Just open your command prompt  run as administrator   Ensure node --v is 6 9 0 or higher and npm --v is 3 0 0 r higher   After that run the following command    npm install -g  angular cli   Once angular is installed  you can see an entry of angular cli in the path  C  Users Dell AppData Roaming npm node modules  angular   Then try ng help  It will work

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In my case  even though  appdata  npm was already in PATH  I had to delete and add it again in the system variable editor  Restarting OS   reinstalling Angular CLI did not help for some reason

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execute following lines in order to solve the issue for both not found and undefined version of ng  npm uninstall -g angular-cli  npm uninstall --save-dev angular-cli  npm cache clean  npm install -g  angular cli latest

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Instead of using the in-built command prompt better start using the NodeJS installed version of command prompt  Then it is going to work perfectly without any issues

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This one almost worked for me  but I had to use   USERPROFILE  AppData Roaming npm   In Environment Variables    System variables Path  Then when I did CMD   ng -v  I got the correct response for angular cli

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I had the same problem today and have gone through the following path -    USERPROFILE  AppData Roaming npm  and came to know that there is some junk data and when I cleared everything under npm directory  Now when I ran  npm install command again   Now everything works fine

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With a command   npm install -g  angular cli latest   It works fine  I am able to run ng command now

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Before try to update the PATH varibles on Windows 7  x64   run CMD console AS ADMINISTRATOR and ng command works for me  this also applied to VISUAL STUDIO CODE Console   It worked for me on both CMD CONSOLE   VS CODE

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I faced same issue when i tried to install angular cli locally with command   npm install  angular cli latest   After that i got same issue C  Users vi1kumar Desktop tus ANGULAR AngularForms ng -v  ng  is not recognized as an internal or external command  operable program or batch file  Than i tried to install it globally   npm install -g  angular cli latest   In this case case it worked i was wondering that is it not possible to install cli globally    After doing some research i found this article very helpful hope it will help someone facing similar issue  Working with multiple versions of Angular CLI

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try to set system variable path with  AppData  npm   and make sure visibility of AppData folder  this folder should be visible  not hidden

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I had the same problem on Windows 7  64 bits running with npm  v3 10 8     I added the path as it was suggested    C  Users      your user name  AppData Roaming npm node modules angular-cli bin ng  and uninstalled angular-cli   After this  I cleared the npm cache by npm cache clean as prompted here https   blogs msdn microsoft com matt-harrington 2012 02 23 how-to-fix-node-js-npm-permission-problems   This guarantees there are no leftovers  Reinstalled angular-cli with npm install -g angular-cliand voila  Hope that may be useful

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I resolved by adding -  AppData  npm node modules angular cli bin  path to my environment variables path

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I am using WIN 10  just figure it out for this problem  Type the code below in cmd    npm config get prefix  and copy amp paste the path that you get it from the top into your computer environment variables-- user variables box --  path --  edit -- C  Program Files nodejs node global  your path may different   Click Ok and reopen your cmd window  type in ng version  then it works  Cheers

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I was also following this problem so I tried this command and it worked perfectly  Use this command  npm run ng

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I had the same problem and solved it completely by running VS Code as Administrator    I used the above mentioned solutions  npm install -g  angular cli latest  amp  npm install  angular cli in my project   tried ng serve both in cmd and VS Code terminal but didn t work  while npm run ng serve could run in VS Code terminal  but I wasn t satisfied with that   After that I set the path in the environment variables exactly like this  C  Users TheUserName AppData Roaming npm  and still wasn t able to run ng serve   Then I ran VS Code as Administrator and it finally worked  It even recognized another command  gulp  which didn t recognize till then  even though I had it also correctly installed  Not sure why it had this behavior and I would like an explanation

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Open cmd and type npm install -g  angular cli  In environment variables  add either in the user variable or System variable  quot Path quot   value C  Users your-user  npm-packages node modules  bin  In cmd  c   gt cd your-new-project-path      project-path  gt  ng new my-app or ng all-ng-commands

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Since this question is still asked over and over again one year later I will post my answer here as well   The clue  on Windows only  is to arrange the entries in the path variable right   As the NPM wiki tells us      Because the installer puts C  Program Files  x86  nodejs before C  Users  AppData Roaming npm on your PATH  it will always use version of npm installed with node instead of the version of npm you installed using npm -g install npm  lt version gt      So your path variable will look something like       C   lt path-to-node-installation gt   appdata  npm      Now you have two possibilities    Swap the two entries so it will look like        appdata  npm C   lt path-to-node-installation gt        This will load the npm version installed with npm  and not with node  and with the installed Angular CLI version    If you  for whatever reason  like to use the npm version bundled with node  add the direct path to your global Angualr CLI version  After this your path variable should look like this      C  Users  lt username gt  AppData Roaming npm node modules  angular cli C   lt path-to-node-installation gt   appdata  npm      or      appdata  npm node modules  angular cli C   lt path-to-node-installation gt   appdata  npm     for the short form    This worked for me since a while now

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I faced same issue on x86  windows 7    uninstalled  angular cli re-installed  angular cli  checked  amp  verified environmental variables  no problems there     Still same issue    Solution was the  npmrc file at C  Users USERNAME     change the prefix so that it reads  prefix   APPDATA  npm     Thanks to this website for help in resolving it

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Sometime in the future  Applicable to Windows 8 1 machine  Run the following commands   npm install -g  angular cli   Log out or restart your machine   This should add the required env path  rather than doing it manually

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I followed below steps for resolution for this issue in Windows 10    First make sure you have installed Angular CLI   You can use below to install same       npm install -g  angular cli latest    Make sure that AppData is visible and navigate to path below        C  Users rkota AppData Roaming npm   Same path can be found by running below too      npm config get prefix    Add the above path i e    C  Users rkota AppData Roaming npm  in Environment variable PATH and make sure it got added by running path in command prompt  Close command prompt and now try to run below       ng --version   you will be able to see CLI version

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You can check in this way  I had the same problem  First  check your user PATH in the environment variable That must point to   USERPROFILE  AppData Roaming npm node modules  angular cli   Instead of command prompt use the node js command prompt  Run node js command prompt from installed program menu  Go to start and search for node js command prompt  Run it then type ng -v hit enter  It will work  Let me know your if it helps or not

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1- Install   npm install -g  angular cli  2- Make sure where your ng cmd is present   3- Then add this path into variables

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I am facing same issue and it s get resolved  At my end reason is i install node and CLI using other user profile and now i am running ng command from other user login  Since node and cli installed using other user login node is not finding anything on C  Users  amp lt user name amp gt  AppData Roaming this path and that s why i am getting this error   I run npm install -g  angular cli command and restart my machine  Every thing is working fine

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I solved this problem in accordance with the figure  run in cmd  npm install -g  angular cli  and then   open in Windows 10  Control Panel All Control Panel Items System or accordance with the figure step 1   step 2    step3   step4   step5  add missing ng path  Finally  restart all opened command prompts  or you can also restart the computer

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In my case I did below steps   All Programs -  Node JS-  Right click on Node js Command Prompt and select properties and from Target string at end copy below   k  C  Program Files nodejs nodevars bat    I launched Visual Studio Code and opened below file  C  Users gochinta AppData Roaming Code User settings json and gave below     Place your settings in this file to overwrite the default settings      terminal integrated shellArgs windows         k    C   Program Files  nodejs  nodevars bat        Now I typed ng -v in my Visual Studio Code Terminal window and it worked

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Adding C  Users DELL AppData Roaming npm to System Variable Path worked for me  Please find your appropriate file path to  npm   Also  check if you have added your angular-cli bin path to the path variable

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Navigate the directory where you want to create the application and run the command    PATH  Path where your node is installed   PATH

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I was having the same issue when tried with the syntax  ng new   and solved that simply by updating the existing node version from 5 x x to 8 x x  After successful updation of node  the syntax worked perfectly for me  Please update the existing version of node  As it is clearly mentioned in angular documentation that these commands require the node version    6 9 x  For reference please check https   angular io guide quickstart  It clearly states  Verify that you are running at least node 6 9 x and npm 3 x x by running node -v and npm -v in a terminal console window  Older versions produce errors  but newer versions are fine

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Set path  path  C  Users  AppData Roaming npm

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After installation  Go to start Menu Type Environment variable click on  edit the system environment variables   It will open a window In window  click on  Environment variable  button Double click on  Path  then click on new and add the below environment variable C  Users  AppData Roaming npm  or open run window type  AppData  and open npm folder there  Provide this location in environment variable

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npm install -g  angular cli helped for me instead of npm install  angular cli

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PATH environment variable should be updated by adding following path    C  Users xyzname AppData Roaming npm node modules  angular cli bin   Because ng file is in bin folder  once this is added for sure ng will be  recognized

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Use Node js command prompt and execute the command     ng version   It should work     If you re looking to actually find where ng is located you can then type where ng and it will show you which ng is running  eg  C  Users USERNAME AppData Roaming npm   You can then look at your path and see if adding that folder is helpful  The Node js command prompt adds extra paths that may be missing from your path

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I had to add the npm path to the user PATH environment variable as well  You can do that by running the following PowerShell script as admin    path   npm config get prefix      userPath    Environment   GetEnvironmentVariable  Path    User    if    userPath -split      -notcontains  path          Environment   SetEnvironmentVariable  PATH      0   1   -f  userPath   path    User

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Install x32 version nodejs instead of x64 version  even on 64-bit windows machine

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close cmd and open it again with admin right or reboot ur system

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Add the ng command path from the folder  bin under the node modules to PATH variable in the system env settings   e g  add C  testProject node modules  bin  to PATH  Restart your IDE

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Set the new path to C  Users yourname AppData Roaming npm node modules  angular cli bin ng  It works fine now  for me

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