'mix' is not recognized as an internal or external command in Laravel 8 new installation

Question

I have installed a new Laravel 8 application, and then I ran...

npm install 

Afterward, I ran...

npm run dev 

I get the following error.

'mix' is not recognized as an internal or external command

 > @ dev E:\wamp64\www\Laravel8Projects\Laravel_Livewire_JetStream_Projects\jetstream_blog > npm run development   > @ development E:\wamp64\www\Laravel8Projects\Laravel_Livewire_JetStream_Projects\jetstream_blog > mix  'mix' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file. npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE npm ERR! errno 1 npm ERR! @ development: `mix` npm ERR! Exit status 1 npm ERR! npm ERR! Failed at the @ development script. npm ERR! This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above.  npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in: npm ERR!     C:\Users\HP\AppData\Roaming\npm-cache\_logs\2021-01-18T17_03_24_944Z-debug.log npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE npm ERR! errno 1 npm ERR! @ dev: `npm run development` npm ERR! Exit status 1 npm ERR! npm ERR! Failed at the @ dev script. npm ERR! This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above.  npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in: npm ERR!     C:\Users\HP\AppData\Roaming\npm-cache\_logs\2021-01-18T17_03_24_980Z-debug.log 

Answer 1

Likely you need to install the latest version of Laravel Mix.

npm install laravel-mix@latest --save-dev