How to solve 'vue-cli-service' is not recognized as an internal or external command?

Question

I am getting an error when trying to run npm run serve. At first I installed node.js then vue as well as vue/cli. But when I am trying to run server as -> npm run serve at that time I'm getting error like 'vue-cli-service' is not recognized as an internal or external command.

I used below codes for installation:

 npm install -g vue npm install -g @vue/cli 

can someone guide me what to do to solve this issue ?

Answer 1

I think you are using cmd in windows.

Try deleting the node_modules folder and after that run npm i from the cmd.

Then try running npm run serve again and see if it works this time

Answer 2

Install vue/cli-service globally

npm install @vue/cli-service -g 

This will install global npm package.

@vue/cli-service is usully installed as global, because you do not usually copy these types of packages to every project.

If the global npm package gets corrupted, it is not stored in node_modules folder, but rather in other depending on the os. Therefore removing node_modules does not help. Locations for global node_modules folders are

• %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules (Win10) or
• /usr/local/lib/node_modules (Linux),

check this stack overflow post on how to locate global packages.