Cordova is not recognized... immediately after installation
Solution 1
It's likely that C:\Users\James\AppData\Roaming\npm\
isn't in your path so even though cordova is installed globally (as npm defines it) it isn't working as expected.
Use the SET
command to check the value for your NODE_PATH
or PATH
. If the npm directory tree isn't listed...that's a problem, but easily fixed.
If you don't want npm to save to this directory, check the npm configuration options and the npm folders docs to see what you can change in this regard...
Solution 2
I just had this issue after a "successful" install, and found the cordova files under a folder called node modules in my users folder. I added c:\users\dewd\node_modules\cordova\bin
to my path, restarted a cmd prompt and then cordova ran ok.
They don't like to make it easy do they!!
Solution 3
Add this to your PATH
C:\Users\<USERNAME>\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\cordova\bin
By default the folder
C:\Users\<USERNAME>\AppData
is not visible. configure your explorer to see it or navigate through the CLI
Solution 4
if there still is not working check the PATH.
make sure the order is node; npm; cordova
example of the PATH
%JAVA_HOME%\bin;
%ANT_HOME%\bin;
%NODEJS%;
%NPM%;
C:\Program Files (x86)\WinAnt\bin;
C:\Program Files (x86)\Git\bin;
C:\Program Files (x86)\Git\cmd;
%CORDOVA%
To be very clean, create a new system variables NODEJS NPM CORDOVA
NODEJS="C:\Program Files\Nodejs"
NPM'="%appdata%\npm\;%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Roaming\npm;"
CORDOVA="%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\cordova\bin"
Then edit the PATH in system variables and add %NODEJS%
in front of anything that uses nodejs after add %NPM%
and %CORDOVA%
at the end.
Solution 5
this has been answered several times here...I will post my answer nonetheless.
In your prompt/terminal type this:npm config set prefix
. Hope it helps ☺☺☺
jdfauw
Updated on June 11, 2022Comments
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jdfauw about 2 years
I'm stuck with this very frustrating problem while trying to install Apache Cordova. I issue
npm install -g cordova
in mycmd
(Windows 8.1, 64 bits), and everything seems to be fine. But even after the installation when trying to typecordova
it is not recognized as a command by thecmd
. This is my first question on StackOverflow, so I may have missed something crucial or made a noob mistake. I hope someone out there can help me! :)Cheers,
cmd
session:C:\Users\James>npm install -g cordova npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/cordova
... bunch of text here ...
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