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'lite-server' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file


I'm having this error during running the following command on Windows 10.

npm run dev 

I'm running lite-server on windows 10, I have tried to solve it using the following commands

npm install -g npm-windows-upgrade
npm install -g concurrently

although I have tried to remove package.json and node modules, reinstalling nodejs. but it seems it is not working.

CMD Err running npm run dev logfile as in the following

1 verbose cli [
1 verbose cli   'C:\\Program Files\\nodejs\\node.exe',
1 verbose cli   'C:\\Program Files\\nodejs\\node_modules\\npm\\bin\\npm-cli.js',
1 verbose cli   'run',
1 verbose cli   'dev'
1 verbose cli ]
2 info using [email protected]
3 info using [email protected]
4 verbose run-script [ 'predev', 'dev', 'postdev' ]
5 info lifecycle [email protected]~predev: [email protected]
6 info lifecycle [email protected]~dev: [email protected]
7 verbose lifecycle [email protected]~dev: unsafe-perm in lifecycle true
8 verbose lifecycle [email protected]~dev: PATH: C:\Program Files\nodejs\node_modules\npm\node_modules\npm-lifecycle\node-gyp-bin;C:\Users\Amr\Desktop\Seecured-master\Seecured-master\election\node_modules\.bin;C:\Users\Amr\bin;C:\Program Files\Git\mingw64\bin;C:\Program Files\Git\usr\local\bin;C:\Program Files\Git\usr\bin;C:\Program Files\Git\usr\bin;C:\Program Files\Git\mingw64\bin;C:\Program Files\Git\usr\bin;C:\Users\Amr\bin;C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Oracle\Java\javapath;C:\ProgramData\Oracle\Java\javapath;C:\Windows\system32;C:\Windows;C:\Windows\System32\Wbem;C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0;C:\Windows\System32\OpenSSH;C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\110\Tools\Binn;C:\Program Files\MATLAB\R2014a\runtime\win64;C:\Program Files\MATLAB\R2014a\bin;C:\Program Files\MATLAB\R2014a\polyspace\bin;C:\Program Files\nodejs;C:\Program Files\Git\cmd;C:\SRC\flutter\bin;C:\Users\Amr\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36\Scripts;C:\Program Files\CMake\bin;C:\Program Files\nodejs;C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Oracle\Java\javapath;C:\ProgramData\Oracle\Java\javapath;C:\Windows\system32;C:\Windows;C:\Windows\System32\Wbem;C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0;C:\Windows\System32\OpenSSH;C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\110\Tools\Binn;C:\Program Files\MATLAB\R2014a\runtime\win64;C:\Program Files\MATLAB\R2014a\bin;C:\Program Files\MATLAB\R2014a\polyspace\bin;C:\Program Files\nodejs;C:\Program Files\Git\cmd;C:\SRC\flutter\bin;C:\Users\Amr\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36\Scripts;C:\Program Files\CMake\bin;C:\Python37\Scripts;C:\Users\Amr\AppData\Local\Programs\Microsoft VS Code\bin;C:\Python37\Scripts;C:\Users\Amr\AppData\Lo;C:\Program Files\nodejs;C:\Program Files\Git\usr\bin\vendor_perl;C:\Program Files\Git\usr\bin\core_perl
9 verbose lifecycle [email protected]~dev: CWD: C:\Users\Amr\Desktop\Seecured-master\Seecured-master\election
10 silly lifecycle [email protected]~dev: Args: [ '/d /s /c', 'lite-server' ]
11 silly lifecycle [email protected]~dev: Returned: code: 1  signal: null
12 info lifecycle [email protected]~dev: Failed to exec dev script
13 verbose stack Error: [email protected] dev: `lite-server`
13 verbose stack Exit status 1
13 verbose stack     at EventEmitter.<anonymous> (C:\Program Files\nodejs\node_modules\npm\node_modules\npm-lifecycle\index.js:332:16)
13 verbose stack     at EventEmitter.emit (events.js:210:5)
13 verbose stack     at ChildProcess.<anonymous> (C:\Program Files\nodejs\node_modules\npm\node_modules\npm-lifecycle\lib\spawn.js:55:14)
13 verbose stack     at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:210:5)
13 verbose stack     at maybeClose (internal/child_process.js:1021:16)
13 verbose stack     at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:283:5)
14 verbose pkgid [email protected]
15 verbose cwd C:\Users\Amr\Desktop\Seecured-master\Seecured-master\election
16 verbose Windows_NT 10.0.17763
17 verbose argv "C:\\Program Files\\nodejs\\node.exe" "C:\\Program Files\\nodejs\\node_modules\\npm\\bin\\npm-cli.js" "run" "dev"
18 verbose node v12.13.0
19 verbose npm  v6.12.0
20 error code ELIFECYCLE
21 error errno 1
22 error [email protected] dev: `lite-server`
22 error Exit status 1
23 error Failed at the [email protected] dev script.
23 error This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above.
24 verbose exit [ 1, true ]

and the package.json file has the following scripts

{
  "name": "AmrAhmed",
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "description": "",
  "main": "truffle.js",
  "directories": {
    "test": "test"
  },
  "scripts": {
    "dev": "lite-server",
    "test": "echo \"Error: no test specified\" && exit 1"
  },
  "author": "",
  "license": "ISC",
  "devDependencies": {
    "lite-server": "^2.3.0"
  }
}

Solution

  • you should run this command line

    npm install [email protected] --save-dev