bower is not recognised as an internal or external command

Question

I have successfully installed nodejs, and express framework, however I downloaded bower via

npm install -g bower

which ran successfully.

Answer 1

Check were your cmd prompt/bash is located when you have successfully commanded "npm install"

Look for the any of the following. -bower.cmd - windows command script -bower - file you can do a quick search in the directory.

if you find it, copy the path to the file. "I found mine in the directory where I successfully performed npm install" + node_modules.bin" - "D:\Work\notepadplusplus\htdocs\laravel-main\angulartest\public\fed\node_modules.bin"

Then do these

1. Open the Windows Control Panel
2. Go to Advance
3. Environment Variables
4. Click on either edit environment variables for your account, or Edit the system environment variables`.
5. Find the variable named Path or PATH, or create one if it doesn't exist.
6. Paste the path from your search earlier (; delimited and without any space).
7. restart your command prompt window or your bash window.

There is no specific path since we all have different structure of our directories. The only precise thing here is to find the bower.cmd location and that will be used to the Path to your windows environment.