http-server command not found

If you do sudo npm install -g and you don't have an npm prefix set, the file is probably installed in /usr/local/bin, but it could be installed more or less anywhere. Whatever directory it's being installed to is probably not in your $PATH, so you should figure out where it's installed and then update your $PATH to include it.

I would very strongly recommend you avoid avoid running sudo with npm. Instead, you can update your prefix in your npm configuration (or update manually in ~/.npmrc to something like prefix=~/.npm but it's up to you. Then you also have to make sure that ~/.npm/bin is in your path.

Even though global packages can be handy sometimes, if they are tied to particular projects I think it's better to just install it as part of the project and run it there:

cd /path/to/project/with/http-server
npm install http-server

# any of:
npx http-server
node_modules/.bin/http-server

Also if you have a package.json#scripts, you can reference any locally installed binary as in:

"scripts": {
  "server": "http-server"
}

and then use npm run server.

npm install http-server -g.

please install http-server globally and there after u can run the command

http-server -o

If you are here because you want to test your Angular PWA project locally you need to install http-server package globally using npm install --global http-server and then only you can run http-server

You may not have your npm binaries in PATH.

Make sure that your npm binaries are in path by running echo $PATH. You should see, somewhere in the printed output, something like:

/home/bob/.npm-packages/bin:/usr/lobal/bin:/other/paths/that/contain/bins

/home/bob/.npm-packages/bin is the directory where my npm binaries are installed whenever I run npm -g install whatever.

If you don't see something like that, read Fixing npm permissions which will walk you through making sure that your environment is set up correctly. Option 2 explicitly talks about fixing PATH.

Another handy thing that I usually do is add all this to my .bashrc or .bashprofile which is in your home directory:

• On macOS /Users/username/
• On *nix: /home/username/

.bashrc

NPM_PACKAGES="${HOME}/.npm-packages"
PATH="$NPM_PACKAGES/bin:$PATH"

However, since it looks like you are using zshell, you'll have to use whatever convention they follow for rc files.

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You can either fix that or, you can install http-server at a package level for your project and then start it through an npm command.

Run npm install --save-dev http-server

and put in your package.json:

{
    "scripts": {
        "start": "http-server ."
    }
}

and then run

npm start