-bash: react-native: command not found

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I have successfully installed brew, node 4.0+, watchman and flow, and I received the following when I do npm install -g react-native-cli:

/Users/home/.node/bin/react-native -> /Users/home/.node/lib/node_modules/react-native-cli/index.js
[email protected] /Users/home/.node/lib/node_modules/react-native-cli
           └── [email protected] ([email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected])

So I assume react-native-cli has been successfully installed as well. However when I run react-native, it says:

-bash: react-native: command not found

My node version is 4.2.1, watchman 3.9, brew 0.9.5 (git 7ed6) and npm 2.14.7

react-native: command not found. stackoverflow.com/questions/37189081/… — Ashok R
– Ashok R, Commented Dec 5, 2016 at 6:10
Others using nvm may want to check that their nvm version is sustaining. I had this issue when I had old npm bin routes in my PATH that needed to be removed — bananabanana
– bananabanana, Commented Feb 21, 2019 at 17:17
This worked for me, maybe this may be the solution for a similar issue. github.com/facebook/react-native/issues/… — AhkyHabibah
– AhkyHabibah, Commented May 28, 2019 at 17:59

bfontaine · Accepted Answer · 2021-02-19 16:07:52Z

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You have to make sure /usr/local/share/npm/bin is in your PATH to use binaries installed with npm.

Add the following to your ~/.bashrc:

export PATH="/usr/local/share/npm/bin:$PATH"

And reload your shell session.

If you find you don’t have a /usr/local/share/npm/bin directory, your npm may install its packages in another location. In this case you have to use the right path in the line above.

One solution to find that path is to run:

npm list -g | head -n 1

This gives you the path where npm install its packages. This is not the path you want but it’s close. For example on my Linux it gives /home/baptiste/.linuxbrew/lib; it suffices to replace lib with bin to get the correct path:

export PATH="/home/baptiste/.linuxbrew/bin:$PATH"

You can use $HOME to get your own home directory:

export PATH="$HOME/.linuxbrew/bin:$PATH"

edited Feb 19, 2021 at 16:07

answered Oct 22, 2015 at 13:47

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loungeonbench Over a year ago

I've run export PATH="$HOME/.node/bin:$PATH" on the terminal, worked perfect. Thanks!

swif2 Over a year ago

there is no /usr/local/share/npm/bin path although I had react-native-cli installed.

bfontaine Over a year ago

@zssr I updated my answer to include a way to find the correct directory.

vijay Over a year ago

This solution worked for me stackoverflow.com/a/48638712/1390678

vikramvi Over a year ago

In my case on Mac 10.13.5, npm list -g | head -n 1 gave result as /usr/local/lib. So I added export PATH="/usr/local/lib:$PATH" to .bash_profile to get this working

swif2 · Accepted Answer · 2017-07-10 03:01:11Z

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I tried many ways to work out a solution to this on my mac(node -v: v8.1.3, npm -v: 5.0.3). And when I ran npm install -g react-native-cli, the output was this:

/Users/xxx/.npm-packages/bin/react-native -> /Users/xxx/.npm-packages/lib/node_modules/react-native-cli/index.js + [email protected] updated 1 package in 2.988s

As you can see react-native was install in /Users/xxx/.npm-packages/bin/, different from what others may say. So I pasted the line export PATH=/Users/xxx/.npm-packages/bin:$PATH to my ~/.profile and opened a new Terminal window to run react-native. It worked!

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Rui Geng Over a year ago

It works for me, thank you, but is there any document indicating the root reason?

yihan Over a year ago

Thank you for your great answer! It finally works for me!

Rahul Sarma Over a year ago

Thank you very much brother, I was trying many solutions, but it was not working. This also I tried but enclosed the value with double quote like this (export PATH="/Users/xxx/.npm-packages/bin:$PATH"). After removing double quote, it worked

Azhar · Accepted Answer · 2018-12-09 18:10:17Z

First of all, you have to install react native globally

npm install -g react-native-cli

then it will show you the path for the react native like the following

/Users/{yourUser}/.npm-packages/bin/react-native -> /Users/{yourUser}/.npm-packages/lib/node_modules/react-native-cli/index.js

Then you have to set the default path from the above result and execute the following command

export PATH="/Users/{yourUser}/.npm-packages/bin/:$PATH"

or

export PATH="$HOME/.npm-packages/bin:$PATH"

Then reload you session/env vairables

source ~/.bash_profile

It works for me .... cheers

thanks

If you are getting Error: EACCES: permission denied, access '/usr/local/lib/node_modules' issue then try sudo npm install -g react-native-cli to install the packages

Rajesh N · Accepted Answer · 2020-01-01 06:14:29Z

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Step 1 .

terminal fire : npm install -g react-native-cli

output: 

/usr/local/Cellar/node/13.3.0/bin/react-native -> /usr/local/Cellar/node/13.3.0/lib/node_modules/react-native-cli/index.js
+ [email protected]
updated 1 package in 4.544s

Step 2: export the path

  export PATH="/usr/local/Cellar/node/13.3.0/bin:$PATH"

answered Jan 1, 2020 at 6:14

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noetix · Accepted Answer · 2019-03-14 11:41:29Z

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It's easy!

Just run npm i -g react-native-cli then restart your cmd.

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Siya · Accepted Answer · 2019-06-17 01:37:17Z

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export PATH="$HOME/.npm-packages/bin:$PATH" worked for me however, I had to replace packages with what was on my mac.

i.e .npm-global instead of .npm-packages. ..

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Rajesh N · Accepted Answer · 2020-01-01 06:13:42Z

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Step 1 .

terminal fire : npm install -g react-native-cli output: /usr/local/Cellar/node/6.1.0/libexec/npm/bin/react-native ->/usr/local/Cellar/node/6.1.0/libexec/npm/lib/node_modules/react-native-cli/index.js/usr/local/Cellar/node/6.1.0/libexec/npm/lib └── [email protected]

answered Jan 1, 2020 at 6:13

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Petter Friberg · Accepted Answer · 2016-10-07 13:05:16Z

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sudo npm install -g react-native-cli

edited Oct 7, 2016 at 13:05

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vijay Over a year ago

this and is half right , though you can have a look at correct one ,it also includes env export stackoverflow.com/a/48638712/1390678

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