How come npm install doesn't work on git bash

Question

I have git bash open and I type in npm install and then it returns:

bash: npm command not found

I don\'t understand, because I

Answer 1

Are you on Windows?

If so, can you go to the Git Bash console and run:

echo $PATH

and then check if the node path(e.g. c/Program Files/node ) is there?

If the node path is not there you'll need to add it to the system path variable.

If it's there, can you try to run npm between double quotes?

"npm"

Answer 2

I had to add node path to system variable AND reboot. For some reason closing and reopening git bash was not enough

Answer 3

If you are on Windows, try this: In CMD, go to folder

C:\Program Files or (x86)\nodejs\

Then try the following

C:\Program Files\nodejs>set path=%PATH%;%CD%
C:\Program Files\nodejs>setx path "%PATH%"

It works for me!

Answer 4

I had the same issue and I successed to solve it by changing the git enviornment system variable from C:\Program Files\Git\cmd to C:\Program Files\Git

Hope that will help someone

Answer 5

You need to define this #!/bin/bash start of you bash script

#!/bin/bash
npm install

Answer 6

If you installed git bash first and then node.js, uninstall gitbash and keep node.js. And then re-install git bash again.

npm --version
node --version

check version using this command