sh: husky: command not found - node.js

Question

I've setup a node project with husky but when my collegue tries to run npm install on his Mac he gets the following error :
noa-be#1.0.0 prepare
husky install
sh: husky: command not found
npm ERR! code 127
npm ERR! path /Users/X/Desktop/Workspace/project
npm ERR! command failed
npm ERR! command sh -c husky install
npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR! /Users/X/.npm/_logs/2021-04-12T13_07_25_842Z-debug.log
These are the relevant package.json parts:
{
"scripts": {
"prepare": "husky install"
},
"devDependencies": {
"husky": "^5.2.0",
}
}
I thought this would be enough for husky to be installed when running npm install, but it's not. What am I missing?

Answer 1

If you are using nvm, you might want to create a file called .huskyrc in your home directory and add the following lines of code to it:
~/.huskyrc
export NVM_DIR="$HOME/.nvm"
[ -s "$NVM_DIR/nvm.sh" ] && \. "$NVM_DIR/nvm.sh"

Answer 2

I was struggling with the same exact problem for hours. Finally, I could install dependencies and start working on my project by doing this:
Temporarily remove the "prepare": "husky install" script from the package.json file.
Run npm i (npm install). Dependencies installed successfuly.
Add again the "prepare" script that you removed in step 1.
Run again npm i to install the husky git hooks, so husky can do its job from now on.

Answer 3

This error is also thrown by npm ci if the NODE_ENV is set to "production" pre-install

Answer 4

I've been able to solve the problem by upgrading to latest Husky version (7.0.1, from 5.2.0).
Git was also helpful, and told me that the files weren't executables. (Git V 2.24.1)
So I give them executable rights :
chmod +x PATH_TO_HUSKY_FILE
You'll need to execute this command for every hooks

Answer 5

I believe it could be version specific issue. Install version 6, npm i husky#6.0.0 --save-dev, and it should work as the husky doc says.
Apparently, when I did npm i husky --save-dev, it was installing "husky": "^0.8.1" for me for some strange reason, giving me the exact same error: sh: husky: command not found.
Method 1:
Update manually, in your package.json:
{
"scripts": {
"prepare": "husky install",
"create-hook": "husky add .husky/pre-commit \"npm test\"",
}
}
Then, run npm run prepare && npm run create-hook.
It should create .husky directory with .pre-commit file in it.
Method 2:
npx husky install
npm set-script prepare "husky install"
npx husky add .husky/pre-commit "npm test"

Answer 6

It worked in my terminal but not in VSCode version control. So had to force quite the vscode app and restarting it worked.

Answer 7

Faced this issue in Github Desktop.
solved it by quit Github Desktop and re-open it.

Answer 8

I was able to fix this by providing an explicit location for husky
"scripts": {
"prepare": "node_modules/.bin/husky-run install"
},

Answer 9

Using Lerna
When I upgraded husky from version 4 to 8 there was information todo first pre commit manually. For this purpose pre-commit bash script was generated in .husky directory.
What I had todo was simply run the command included in this file:
lerna run precommit --concurrency 2 --stream