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Seth Johnson
Seth Johnson
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Posted by Seth Johnson
Seth Johnson
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nodemon "command not found" quandary in my terminal

Ok, I did everything as exactly as I can figure while following along with this video, but by the time I got to the very end and tried typing the simple 'nodemon' command, I received the following in response:

-bash: nodemon: command not found

Which I'm really struggling to make sense of, since it appears that nodemon did in fact succesfully install via my terminal, unless I'm missing something:

node-pre-gyp WARN Using needle for node-pre-gyp https download 
[fsevents] Success: "/usr/local/Cellar/node/11.13.0/lib/node_modules/nodemon/node_modules/fsevents/lib/binding/Release/node-v67-darwin-x64/fse.node" is installed via remote

> nodemon@1.18.10 postinstall /usr/local/Cellar/node/11.13.0/lib/node_modules/nodemon
> node bin/postinstall || exit 0

Love nodemon? You can now support the project via the open collective:
 > https://opencollective.com/nodemon/donate

+ nodemon@1.18.10
added 291 packages from 145 contributors in 26.323s

Any help or a clue to point me in the right direction would be much appreciated. Thanks!

Dave StSomeWhere
Dave StSomeWhere
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Dave StSomeWhere
Dave StSomeWhere
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What is your OS and what command did you enter to install nodemon?

2 Answers

Seth Johnson
Seth Johnson
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Seth Johnson
Seth Johnson
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Hey Dave, thanks for the reply! I'm on a MacOS terminal (using High Sierra), and the command I used was (to the best of my knowledge) the same one used in the video:

npm install -g nodemon

Additionally, I'm using express 4.16.4, which is the latest version as of 4/6/19.

Tobias Alpskog
Tobias Alpskog
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Tobias Alpskog
Tobias Alpskog
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Hi, I'm a bit late but had similar issues. The differences are I installed nodemon locally and I am on Linux Mint. Solved it by running "npx nodemon" instead of "nodemon".

From GitHub installation: "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."