Babel command not found

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I have installed the babel-cli tool as explained by the Babel  getting started  page   From a terminal inside my project folder   npm install --save-dev babel-cli   After this  there is a node modules directory with a babel-cli folder  but there is no package json created  npm also shows the following error   npm WARN enoent ENOENT  no such file or directory  open   Users MyName Sites Tutorials Babel2 package json   When trying to run babel  I get this   babel src -d lib -bash  babel  command not found   I have the latest version of nodejs npm installed  I have run npm update -g  and I have edited my  bash profile file to include   export PATH  PATH  Users MyName npm bin export PATH  usr local share npm bin  PATH   I have not experienced this with other npm tools such as browserify  Why is babel not recognized

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I ran into the very same problem  tried out really everything that I could think of  Not being a fan of installing anything globally  but eventually had to run npm install -g babel-cli  which solved my problem  Maybe not the answer  but definitely a possible solution

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Actually  if you want to use cmd commands you have two ways  First  install it at gloabl environment  The other way is npm link  so  try the first way  npm install -g babel-cli

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One option is to install the cli globally   Since Babel 7 was released the namespace has changed from babel-cli to  babel cli  hence   npm install --global  babel cli   You ll likely still encounter errors for  babel core so   npm install --global  babel core

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This worked for me inside package json as an npm script but it does seem to take to long grabbing the packages even though I have them as dev dependancies  It also seems too long    babel    npx -p  babel cli -p  babel core babel --version    What end up solving it was much simpler but funny too  npm install   I thought I ran that already but I guess somethings needed to be rebuilt  Then just    babel    babel --version

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For those using Yarn as their package manager instead of npm   yarn global add babel-cli

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Installing babel globally solves this issue   npm install -g  babel core  babel cli   However  it is not encourage to install dependencies globally because they won t have their versions managed on a per-project basis   You should install your dependencies locally  as suggested on babel s documentation   npm install --save-dev  babel core  babel cli   The downside is that this gives you no fast convenient way to invoke local binaries interactively  in this case babel   npx gives you a great solution   npx babel --version   This will run your local installation of babel  Additionally  if you want to avoid typing npx  you can configure the shell auto fallback  and then just run   babel --version     Note  it is important to create a file  babelrc  at your project s root  in which you specify your babel configuration  As a starting point you can use env-preset to transpile to ES2015    npm install  babel preset-env --save-dev   In order to enable the preset you have to define it in your  babelrc file  like this        presets      babel preset-env

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There are two problems here  First  you need a package json file  Telling npm to install without one will throw the npm WARN enoent ENOENT  no such file or directory error  In your project directory  run npm init to generate a package json file for the project   Second  local binaries probably aren t found because the local   node modules  bin is not in  PATH  There are some solutions in How to use package installed locally in node modules   but it might be easier to just wrap your babel-cli commands in npm scripts  This works because npm run adds the output of npm bin  node modules  bin  to the PATH provided to scripts   Here s a stripped-down example package json which returns the locally installed babel-cli version        scripts          babel-version    babel --version          devDependencies          babel-cli     6 6 5          Call the script with this command  npm run babel-version   Putting scripts in package json is quite useful but often overlooked  Much more in the docs  How npm handles the  scripts  field

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You will need to add quotes around the path to your babel file as below     node modules  bin babel  --help

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When I found this question  I was looking for    npm install -g babel-cli

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Worked for me e g     node modules  bin babel --version   node modules  bin babel src main js

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This is what I ve done to automatically add my local project node modules  bin path to PATH  In    profile I added   if   -d   PWD node modules  bin     then      PATH   PWD node modules  bin  fi   Then reload your bash profile  source    profile

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This is common issue and its looking for  cmd file from your root directory where you installed babel-cli  Try the below command        node modules  bin babel cmd   Once you are able to see your source code in the command prompt  Your next step is to install one more npm module babel-preset-es2015   Follow the below answer to install babel-preset-es2015 and see why babel need this   babel-file-is-copied-without-being-transformed

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To install version 7  of Babel run   npm install -g  babel cli npm install -g  babel core

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I had the same issue  Deleted the nodemodules folder and opened command prompt as administrator and then ran npm install     All packages installed fine

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