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

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.

6 Answers

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.

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 

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

I had same problem too and this helped me to fix it so try this after installing serve;

 npx serve -s build 

or

npx serve -s build -p 8000 

(8000 = it depends by your choice) I don't know why but this worked for me

I faced the same problem, what I did was run the command yarn serve -s build If you got it installed with npm then you can just add npm before the suggested command

If anyone still gets the problem, try this:

npm uninstall -g serve npm i -S serve yarn global add serve