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nodemon - command not found

Hey, Just trying to get nodemon working! Seems like installation worked alright, but I can't launch any nodemon commands (even nodemon -v)?

Here's my package.json file. Any ideas?

{ "name": "flashcards", "version": "1.0.0", "description": "", "main": "app.js", "scripts": { "devStart": "nodemon app.js" }, "keywords": [], "author": "", "license": "ISC", "dependencies": { "express": "^4.17.1" }, "devDependencies": { "nodemon": "^2.0.6" } }

Jieying Tham
Jieying Tham
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if you added nodemon using npm scripts, you can run nodemon using the following command

npm run devStart

it will run the command the you defined in the package.json file under scripts.

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Tobias Alpskog
Tobias Alpskog
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Tobias Alpskog
Tobias Alpskog
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Hi! I had similar issues where "nodemon" was not recognized as a command.

Perhaps you installed it locally.

From nodemon's GitHub page: "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."