Question

just installed new ubuntu vm to test around with node
installed things in this order:

node
mongodb-server
npm
express
mongoose

now, trying to create a new app i noticed express cannot be used in the shell.
express -v returns
express: command not found

i installed npm like this

curl http://npmjs.org/install.sh | sudo sh

and i installed express this way

npm install express

any ideas?

Answer 1

npm install express -g

You need to install it globally.

Npm 1.0 installs modules locally by default. So the bash executable lives in /node_modules/bin/. You can add that folder to PATH or you can just install express globally so that it’s picked up by PATH