Node js commands don't work - node.js

The other day I could type commands on Node command prompt just fine then commands stopped, I dont know what happened or what I had changed. So today I tried and I still get the below message
The system cannot find the path specified.
I reinstalled Node and still same problem. I cannot change directory when I run
cd ~
or
ls
but I can check node version just fine.
node -v
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The stated commands are for linux/unix the Windows equivalent are as follows
cd ~ use cd /
and
ls use dir

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How can I run a node app from the command line?

On RHEL I have put various executable files in ~/.local/bin eg. nvim.appimage. As ~/.local/bin is in my $PATH variable I can call nvim.appimage from any directory which is great.
I want some node apps to be able to be called from any directory, for example ESLint. These are not binaries but are directories with a lot of files and directories inside. Which directory (presumably in $PATH) should they be in so that I as a user but not other users can call them from any of my directories? Also how should they be invoked.
As an example, I have put the cowsay node app into ~/.local/bin I can invoke it like this from any of my directories:
$ node ~/.local/bin/cowsay/node_modules/cowsay/cli.js moo
(I can actually omit node from that command as cli.js has #!bin/bash/env node at the top.)
I would like to be able to invoke cowsay from any of my directories with a simple command eg cowsay
I know that a lot of node apps are not intended to be run from the command line but some are. In particular I am having great difficulty to get neovim with Ale to recognize some node linters like ESLint. Perhaps if I can sort the cowsay issue out I may be able to move on to ESLint with neovim. I am hoping that if I can get ESLint invokable from a location in $PATH it might be usable by neovim / Ale.
Can this achieve what you expected ?
mkdir ~/.local/nodexe
cd ~/.local/nodexe
ln -fs ../bin/cowsay/node_modules/cowsay/cli.js cowsay
PATH=$PATH:~/.local/nodexe
Assuming you have #!bin/bash/env node in cli.js, then you can run by typing cowsay moo

Unable to run node from git bash

I am no longer able to run node from the git bash terminal. It works from Git CMD and the standard windows CLI. If I try to run a file (e.g. node index.js) or even just start node via node, I go back to the input prompt except now I can't see any of my character inputs.
This is not a result of PATH not being set, as where node gives me C:\Program Files\nodejs\node.exe and which node gives me /c/Program Files/nodejs/node and echo $PATH does have /c/Program Files/nodejs included.
If I type another command (such as ls), it actually will work even though I will continue to not be able to see my input.
I think this problem arose after the latest Windows 10 OS update was pushed to my system (10.0.17763). I've tried reinstalling Git for Windows and Node, and neither have resolved the issue. I can't find any other settings that might be affecting this.
Using Git CMD or Windows CLI is a workaround, but neither of those have a "Git Bash Here" option, which is the #1 thing I want this for. It is also nice that I get the visual indication of branch in Git Bash where I do not get that with Git CMD or the Windows CLI.
I don't need or want to use Git GUI, and besides that won't allow me to run local node files which I need to do for testing.
Does anyone have any ideas on how I can get Git Bash working with node again?
UPDATE: By running stty -a after node fails, I see that echo has flipped to -echo, which is why I can't see the input anymore. But that doesn't explain why node isn't loading and echo is getting turned off. Hoping that gives someone some additional context to figure out what's going on here. brkint, icrnl, ixon, opost, isig, and icanon are also getting flipped to the - versions after attempting to run node.
There are 2 possible workarounds (based on what your problem is) that I have tried-
Enter node first of all:
1) Try typing in reset and hit enter. You may not be able to see the input logging in, in the bash terminal window, but it works after that.
2) Or try typing any random alphabet and hit enter(again you won't see it on the screen),it will throw a 'command not found' error but you will have node working after this.
I am afraid these aren't exactly proper fixes, but they get the job done.
More information can be found here: https://askubuntu.com/questions/171449/shell-does-not-show-typed-in-commands-reset-works-but-what-happened/172747#172747

Jenkins build step fails when calling "npm" on mac-os-x Yosemite

Before I start, I want to say that I already checked these answers:
Jenkins build step fails on 'npm install <whatever>'
Jenkin's build failing on npm install
Now, I'm dealing with this issue for a while already and thus I tried a bunch of stuff.
Firstly, I installed node + npm via homebrew. A simple $ node -v and $ npm -v echoed the version v0.10.36 for node and v2.3.* for npm, which also means I HAVE THEM IN THE PATH and they work while called in the terminal.
Simply adding node -v; npm -v to the execute shell in Jenkins didn't do it. After a bit of tinkering I copied what $: which node yielded in the terminal to the above mentioned script, which now looked like this: /usr/local/bin/node and apparently that worked. The Jenkins build succeeded and 'node-v0.10.36' was proudly displayed in the console output.
When doing the same for 'npm' which happened to be /usr/local/bin/npm --version the computing gods weren't so merciful anymore. A big 'env: node: No such file or directory' error was thrown this time and the whole build failed.
The actual command that fails is
$ /bin/sh -xe /var/folders/wr/g_dl81tn5_x0t_yz3jw602cr0000gn/T/hudson8770480548136671253.sh and "surprisingly" when I run the same command in the terminal it succeeds.
I also uninstalled the homebrew node & npm versions and installed them afterwards via the package manager. Same results.
Ultimately I also did this: https://gist.github.com/DanHerbert/9520689, with no luck.
Notes:
I'm running Jenkins 1.613 and tried with 1.5**
I didn't create a "Jenkins" specific user but instead I'm using the admin. This happens to be the same user that Jenkins runs, since the who am i command inside the executable script yields the admin's user name.
sudo'ing doens't help
I'm also running the whole thing in a Virtual Environment - vagrant
I'm not running Jenkins as a deamon, as it's conflicting with xtools, but as a simple process
I also tried out jenkins-node plugin with various configs (can detail if needed)
Thanks a lot for your help, and let me know if you need any other info, screenshots, logs, etc.
I found my own solution. The problem was that the PATH although visible in shell was not exported for the Jenkins job, and so, the first workaround, as found here, was to export it in the actual script like so:
but this feels like a hack!
The right and elegant solution is to use Jenkins EnvInject Plugin and export the path in the added Properties content textarea on the configuration page, like so:
Manage Jenkins -> Configure System -> Global properties -> Environment variables

Node.js Cygwin not supported

I am trying to install node.js. I followed this tutorial and i am stuck in the middle.
When I write ./configure in my cygwin terminal it says "cygwin not supported". Please help me out
Thanks in advance.
Node in my experience runs fine in cygwin, what Node usually has EINVAL errors in seems to be MINTTY which is a terminal emulation 'skin' that is default to cygwin. I still am not sure why these EINVAL errors happen 100% but the following are the steps and tricks I use to get node working.
In my /cygwin/home/{username}/.bashrc I add node to path so cygwin can find it
export PATH=$PATH:"/cygdrive/c/Program Files/nodejs/"
If you run a 32 bit version of node:
export PATH=$PATH:"/cygdrive/c/Program Files (x86)/nodejs/"
Then to make npm run without windows to linux issues I launch cygwin in admin mode then run:
dos2unix '/cygdrive/c/Program Files/nodejs/npm'
At this point running files and most npm packages will run in MINTTY just fine, although every once and awhile you will run into EINVAL issues with certain npm packages as karma. Also you will not be able to run the interpreter directly in MINTTY, anytime I want to do these things I run:
cygstart /bin/bash
This will open a native cygwin bash.exe window, from here you run the interpreter or an any troubling package command that results in a EINVAL. It slightly sucks you have to do this but I rarely use this day to day, and I love MINTTY too much to not use it.
Also note that you can run any one line node code in MINTTY by just running something like:
node -e "console.log('hello node')"
As a simpler derivative of troy's answer for those just looking to install NPM packages:
Install Node.js with the Windows installer package.
Add it to the PATH with export PATH=$PATH:"/cygdrive/c/Program Files/nodejs/" (obviously replacing the path to Node.js's installation directory with where you installed it).
There's a current bug in the Windows version that can be fixed by running mkdir -p ~/AppData/Roaming/npm. This is a bug for all of Windows and not just Cygwin. At some point of the future, you won't have to do this anymore, but the command shouldn't have any negative side effects.
Test it. Eg, npm install pretty-diff -g.
In order to be able to run the newly installed software, you'll need to add the install locations to your PATH. You can find these with npm bin -g and npm bin (the -g flag is the "global" installation location).
Not really anything special that you have to do to get it to run in Cygwin (although I can't say if everything works).
Use Console2, it allows you to run create tabs of CLI shells. It seems running cygwin inside console2 allows me to use node REPL just fine. I have no idea why :P
Follow this guide to add cygwin to console2:
http://blog.msbbc.co.uk/2009/11/configuring-console-2-and-bash-with.html
With Bjørn's suggestion (using Console2) and Soyuka's alias (steps here), my node.js v0.10.13 and npm v1.3.2 are now working under Babun v1.02, a Cygwin distribution.
For windows, Just run bash.exe in cmd, so that you could have a bash work around with cmd console directly, which could support ALL NODE WORKING PERFECTLY.
C:\Users\郷>bash
郷#CHIGIX ~
$ node
>
I'm using this wrapper in /usr/local/bin/node (note no extension!)
#!/bin/sh
_cmd="$(cygpath -lw -- "$1" )"
shift
"/proc/cygdrive/C/Program Files/nodejs/node.exe" "$_cmd" "$#"
This is far from perfect, as Node do not understand Cygwin directory tree, but works relatively well with relative names.
From Windows, run Cygwin.bat (instead of Cygwin Terminal) then in that run node: see and reply on this answer on this effectively-same question asked 1.5 years later.
Grab and run the node.js Windows installer.
In the Cygwin prompt type node
See if it works.

Node.JS - How to Run Node Command from any path?

I have installed the latest node.js from here . I see the %Path% variables have been set for Node.js. But, When i run node from C:\ , i get a "Node is not an recognized comman". But node command is working fine from "C:\Program Files (x86)\nodejs" path. Can i not run Node commands from C:\ or Say from an other path if i set the Env variables right? Please help. I am running a Win7 X64.
Thank You,
Faraaz
I had the exact same problem, but in my PATH variable I had: C:\Program Files\nodejs\.
After changing it to C:\Program Files\nodejs I could access it from anywhere.
What happens if you run node --version? I have never tried node.js from windows but if that doesn't work there is something wrong with your paths.
What do you get when you run echo %PATH%?
You should check if the path C:\Program Files (x86)\nodejs is present in your %PATH. If not, add it via the system properties (persistent change). In any case, restart your command prompt, it'll reload the %PATH variable. If you're lucky, it should work now :)
Most likely it happens because there is no Node path in your PATH environment variable.
I see two ways to solve this
Just add Node path into the end of PATH.
Reinstall Node as administrator
run 7-zip (or some file manager) with administrator privileges >>
browse to node-installer.msi >> open it, install node >> enjoy
My Sublime was working with Nodejs fine. I could press Alt-R and see the output from Node in Sublime. Then at some point I upgraded Sublime. I now have version 2.02 build 2221
And at some later point I tried Alt-R and got this infamous message
'node' is not recognized as an internal or external command
But it had worked, so what changed?
The steps I took to fix it were to install git bash and then
$ git clone https://github.com/tanepiper/SublimeText-Nodejs.git
$ cd SublimeText-Nodejs/
$ git checkout 095ba03344
Back in Sublime I clicked Preferences > Browse Packages. This opened up Windows Explorer with the folder:
C:\Users\me\AppData\Roaming\Sublime Text 2\Packages
I replaced the contents of the Nodejs folder with the git version. Re-started Sublime and then Alt-R sprang back into life.
Other things that turned out to be irrelevant were changing the file Nodejs.sublime-settings and tampering with system environment variables. The only thing that worked was 095ba03344 as described here
https://github.com/tanepiper/SublimeText-Nodejs/pull/39

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