Browserify command not found

Question

Quick question, when I run browserify index.js -o app.js from the mac terminal, I get a command not found. I did npm install -g but still no luck. Any idea why I get this?

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Answer 1

Add this to your ~/.bashrc or equivalent:

export PATH=$PATH:~/.npm-global/bin/

Then, in order for this to actually take effect in a terminal session, do source ~/.bashrc .

At this point, you can execute browserify , as well as potentially many other commands. Check ~/.npm-global/bin/ to see what has become available.

Answer 2

Just install it in a global space, for example, if you need to run it from the command line.

npm install browserify -g

You may need to run

npm uninstall browserify -g just to make sure you don't have false aliases.

Answer 3

I could not get browserify to work.

It works ~/.npm/bin/browserify .

Other packages seem to work fine (e.g. phantomjs).

The workaround seems to add alias browserify='~/.npm/bin/browserify' to your .bash_profile