nest Command not found

Question

I followed the documentation to create my first NestJS project.

Installing the Nest CLI with the command npm i -g @nestjs/cli was successful.

The output was:

+ @nestjs/[email protected]
updated 1 package in 11.326s

However, when I try to scaffold a project with the Nest CLI:

nest new project-name

I get the following error:

zsh: command not found: nest

Some details about my environment:

• OSX
• iTerm
• npm version 6.5.0

Solution 1

Use npx @nestjs/cli instead of nest

e.g. npx @nestjs/cli g controller pages

Solution 2

I was also getting the same console error when npm installing!

Erro was

 @nestjs/cli

npm WARN deprecated [email protected]: https://github.com/lydell/resolve-url#deprecated npm WARN deprecated [email protected]: Please see https://github.com/lydell/urix#deprecated npm WARN deprecated [email protected]: Chokidar 2 will break on node v14+. Upgrade to chokidar 3 with 15x less dependencies. npm WARN deprecated [email protected]: fsevents 1 will break on node v14+ and could be using insecure binaries. Upgrade to fsevents 2. npm WARN checkPermissions Missing write access to /usr/local/lib/node_modules/@nestjs/cli npm WARN checkPermissions Missing write access to /usr/local/lib/node_modules/@nestjs npm WARN notsup Unsupported engine for [email protected]: wanted: {"node":"<8.10.0"} (current: {"node":"12.14.1","npm":"6.13.4"}) npm WARN notsup Not compatible with your version of node/npm: [email protected]

How I wasn able to install => Solution

sudo npm install -g @nestjs/cli

Solution 3

I was having the same issue, what I did was:

Installed the latest node with npm install npm@latest -g

and then added the following to my .bash_profile

alias nest="/usr/local/Cellar/node/11.9.0/bin/nest"

Tested with nest --version and it worked.

For some reason the path is not being called correctly, hope it helps.

Solution 4

Following command works in my windows 10

node -v 
v14.16.0
 
npm -v
6.14.11

npx @nestjs/cli new project-name

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Comments

[Joël Sonderegger]

Still the same outcome. What worked is to add alias nest="/usr/local/lib/node_modules/node/lib/node_modules/node‌​/lib/node_modules/@n‌​estjs/cli/bin/nest.j‌​s to my ~/.zshrc file. But not sure it is the best solution as a future npm will need an additional alias.

[Jonathan Nielsen]

Please note that this wont work since he's using zsh and not bash. He need to do the equivalent for his ~/.zshrc.

[Mooncake]

Never, ever, use SUDO with NPM as it may lead to security issues

[ikoza]

care to elaborate on that? Anyway, installing a package globally requires elevated rights. Is there a way around this?

[ikoza]

ok, here it is: github.com/sindresorhus/guides/blob/main/…