nest Command not found

Question

I followed the documentation to create my first NestJS project.

Installing the Nest CLI with the command npm i -g @nestjs/cli was successful.

The output was:

+ @nestjs/[email protected]
updated 1 package in 11.326s

However, when I try to scaffold a project with the Nest CLI:

nest new project-name

I get the following error:

zsh: command not found: nest

Some details about my environment:

• OSX
• iTerm
• npm version 6.5.0

Answer 1

Use npx @nestjs/cli instead of nest

e.g. npx @nestjs/cli g controller pages

Answer 2

I was also getting the same console error when npm installing!

Erro was

 @nestjs/cli

npm WARN deprecated [email protected]: https://github.com/lydell/resolve-url#deprecated npm WARN deprecated [email protected]: Please see https://github.com/lydell/urix#deprecated npm WARN deprecated [email protected]: Chokidar 2 will break on node v14+. Upgrade to chokidar 3 with 15x less dependencies. npm WARN deprecated [email protected]: fsevents 1 will break on node v14+ and could be using insecure binaries. Upgrade to fsevents 2. npm WARN checkPermissions Missing write access to /usr/local/lib/node_modules/@nestjs/cli npm WARN checkPermissions Missing write access to /usr/local/lib/node_modules/@nestjs npm WARN notsup Unsupported engine for [email protected]: wanted: {"node":"<8.10.0"} (current: {"node":"12.14.1","npm":"6.13.4"}) npm WARN notsup Not compatible with your version of node/npm: [email protected]

How I wasn able to install => Solution

sudo npm install -g @nestjs/cli

Answer 3

I was having the same issue, what I did was:

Installed the latest node with npm install npm@latest -g

and then added the following to my .bash_profile

alias nest="/usr/local/Cellar/node/11.9.0/bin/nest"

Tested with nest --version and it worked.

For some reason the path is not being called correctly, hope it helps.

Answer 4

Following command works in my windows 10

node -v 
v14.16.0
 
npm -v
6.14.11

npx @nestjs/cli new project-name

Answer 5

Working through a NestJS/Mongo DB tutorial i stumbled into this very same problem. After trying all of the solutions that were listed above, even turning my default profile back to bash instead of using zsh, i found that simply adding the /usr/local/bin and ~/.npm-global/bin to my path variable resolved the issue. Hopefully this helps someone else who may stumble on this in the future as well.

export $PATH="/usr/local/bin"

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

Were the two commands i ran from iTerm2 in order to add them to my PATH environment variable. Once this was done a simple

env

showed the entries in my $PATH environment variable and the nest -v command worked without any issues.

Answer 6

You have to add the following line to your ~/.zshrc file:

source $HOME/.bashrc

This is needed so that the npm binaries are available on startup.

Answer 7

I had same error when I use GitBash. I resoved it: If you use windows: Your use CMD: npm i -g @nestjs/cli

Then you can use gitbash:

• Check version nestjs: nest --version
• Create app nestjs: nest new name_project

Answer 8

I have faced same problem and solved ,following this

1. write the command NPM root -g
2. check where NPM is installed
3. add it to your path environment variable

Answer 9

After all the answers that I tried, I used my method

1. After installing npm i -g @nestjs/cli in my mac terminal.

2. open bash file in macos by typing open ~/.bash_profile in mac terminal. Like you can type it anywhere.

3. Your bash will look like this and use this line

   alias nest="~/.npm-global/lib/node_modules/@nestjs/cli/bin/nest.js"

4. Restart your mac for changes to be reflected in your terminal.

5. There you go nestjs cli is now working globally 2nd screenshot.

Answer 10

You can try to use sudo

sudo yarn global add @nestjs/cli