Installing Sanity on a Mac via Terminal - helpful tips and instructions

i need help please. giving up on sanity already.. ijust dont know why its so frustrating installing sanity on my mAC via the terminal

Hey there! What sort of issues are you having?

thank you. it returns EACCESS .. and when I add sudo to the begining, it asks for a password… i dont know what the password should be.

The password will be the same on that you use to login to your computer.

Really sorry this is frustrating. Managing node can be rough for even seasoned web developers.
Here’s a detailed
recent article on installing node with nvm (node version manager) on mac.
Here’s my own quick and dirty that may help you:
1. install
Homebrew (note: the xcode tools download can take a while if you haven’t done this yet on your mac)2. instead of installing node with brew…
3. install nvm with brew:

brew install nvm

4. install the latest node “lts” version (
nvm instructions )5. check your node (

node -v

) and npm (

npm -v

) versions. Both should return something. If so, you’re ready to install the cli6. now install the sanity cli globally:

npm install -g @sanity/cli

7. check if the cli is installed:

sanity --help

should return a list of options8. go ahead and log into the sanity cli:

sanity login

- use your existing sanity account or create a new one if you haven’t yet9. NOW you should be good to go to create a new studio with

sanity init

or install modules in an existing studio with

sanity install

then

sanity start

to turn on your local dev server!

For more recent macOS versions, I do not think that you should need to run any of these commands with sudo and would avoid it unless the linked instructions say so.

running sudo with any of the brew, node, or npm module commands above might actually install things in a different directory than expected and cause unexpected results when you go to use the cli in your project

but I installed NODE already? downloaded it from the website and then installed it on my mac. Please Is there any additional installing process other than those I mentioned?

thanks alot. I’ve got the password.

If this works for you, you should be good to continue.

check your node (

node -v

) and npm (

npm -v

) versions. Both should return something

Here are some quick commands from my computer to make sure everything is installed:

You're welcome ! Were you able to complete your install?

Yes I was. Thanks