npm command 'serve ' not found, although it is installed

Question

I have installed serve with npm as "npm install serve -g" and also with yarn "yarn global add serve", but when I try to run "serve -s build" it says that "Command 'serve' not found.

Answer 1

You should not install the packages globally.Try to do the following-

npm uninstall -g serve 
npm i -S serve

Let me know if this works.

Answer 2

None of these above answers worked for me, so this is what works for me :

• sudo su
• npm install -g serve

Installing as root helps globally installing serve

Answer 3

Make sure to have this in your .bashrc or .zshrc

if you're using Yarn:

export PATH="$PATH:$(yarn global bin)"

if you're using NPM:

export PATH="$(npm bin -g):$PATH"

So that the shell would know where to look for executables such as serve, npx, live-server etc that are installed globally.

Make sure to reload your shell config:

source ~/.bashrc // or ~/.zshrc