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

Question

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 in

Answer 1

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"