nodemon not working -bash nodemon command not found

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I m on a Mac running El Capitan  I have node v5 6 0 and npm v3 6 0   When I try to run nodemon  I get    -bash  nodemon  command not found   I thought this may mean that I didn t have nodemon installed  so when I tried to install it using     sudo npm install -g nodemon      I get this   npm ERR  Darwin 15 2 0 npm ERR  argv   usr local bin node    usr local bin npm   install   -g       nodemon  npm ERR  node v5 6 0 npm ERR  npm  v3 6 0 npm ERR  path  usr local bin nodemon npm ERR  code EEXIST  npm ERR  Refusing to delete  usr local bin nodemon     lib node modules nodemon nodemon js symlink target is not controlled by         npm  usr local npm ERR  File exists   usr local bin nodemon npm ERR  Move it away  and try again   npm ERR  Please include the following file with any support request  npm ERR       Users brianeoneill npm-debug log   If it makes a difference  I m trying to run nodemon on a project that uses Express v4 13 1  Thanks for any help you can offer

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npx nodemon filename js This will work on macOS BigSur

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If you want to run it locally instead of globally  you can run it from your node modules      npx nodemon

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In Windows git bash  I fixed it by restarting git bash

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npm install nodemon --save-dev  Next package json on and  quot scripts quot      quot test quot    quot echo   quot Error  no test specified  quot   amp  amp  exit 1 quot    quot start quot    quot nodemon app js quot     Type on terminal  command prompt  npm start

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Just writing what did worked for me -  on Windows machine  installing node locally to the project  if you do not want to install it globally  i e without -g flag  you have to use npx nodemon app  where app is your app js is your program file to launch

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FOR WINDOW USERS I tried every possible way but nothing worked for me  What worked was - npx nodemon server FOLLOWING WILL BE THE OUTPUT -

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For nodemon  not found command  I tried with many links but was not working then i tried with the below steps it worked fine   Follow this step it worked for me   step1   sudo su   step2   npm install -g nodemon --save-dev  It is working fine

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Put --exec arg in single quotation  e g  I changed  quot nodemon --exec yarn build-langs quot  to  quot nodemon --exec  yarn build-langs  quot  and worked

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Just in case for those using Windows  you don t need sudo  npm i -g nodemon

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Make sure you own root directory for npm so you don t get any errors when you install global packages without using sudo   procedures - in root directory  sudo chown -R yourUsername  usr local lib node modules sudo chown -R yourUsername  usr local bin  sudo chown -R yourUsername  usr local share    So now with  npm i npm -g    you get no errors and no use of sudo here  but if you still get errors  confirm node modules is owned again    usr local lib    and make sure you own everything   ls -la   now   npm i -g nodemon   will work

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in Windows OS run   npx nodemon server js   or add in package json config        scripts          dev    npx nodemon server js             then run    npm run dev

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I m using macOS Linux  the solution that works for me is npx nodemon index js   I have tried every possibility  like uninstalling and installing nodemon  installing nodemon globally  restart the terminal  but it won t work  don t try such things to waste your time

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I ran into the same problem since I had changed my global path of npm packages before   Here s how I fixed it    When I installed nodemon using   npm install nodemon -g --save   my path for the global npm packages was not present in the PATH variable     If you just add it to the  PATH variable it will get fixed   Edit the    bashrc file in your home folder and add this line  -  export PATH  PATH   npm   Here  npm  is the path to my global npm packages   Replace it with the global path in your system

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Install nodemon  sudo npm install -g nodemon  Run server  sudo nodemon server js

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In macOS   I fixed this error by installing nodemon globally  npm install -g nodemon --save-dev    and by adding the npm path to the bash profile file  First  open bash profile in nano by using the following command   nano    bash profile   Second  add the following two lines to the bash profile file  I use comments         which makes it bash profile more readable      npm export PATH  PATH   npm

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sudo su   then  npm install nodemon    worked for me

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I tried the following  and none worked    npm uninstall nodemon  sudo npm uninstall -g nodemon   What did work was    sudo npm install -g --force nodemon

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From you own project   npx nodemon  your-app js    With a local installation  nodemon will not be available in your system path  Instead  the local installation of nodemon can be run by calling it from within an npm script  such as npm start  or using npx nodemon   OR  Create a simple symbolik link  ln -s  Users YourUsername  npm-global bin nodemon  usr local bin   ln -s  from  where is you install  nodemon     to  folder where are general module for node   node   v12 1 0  npm   6 9 0

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I had the same exact problem  expect for Windows OS    For me  running  npm install -g nodemon --save-dev    note the -g  worked    Maybe somebody else who has this problem on Windows will have the same solution

[node.js] nodemon not working: -bash: nodemon: command not found

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