Issue with installing and running Sanity CLI, resolved by using NVM.

Hello everyone, I just can’t get the sanity cli up and running.
After typing in

I only get the following output

after typing in

sanity

I get the following error message

Looks like your npm binary path is not part of

$PATH

indeed.
Not sure how familiar you are with node and npm, but I tend to recommend that people use a node versioning manager like NVM (
https://github.com/nvm-sh/nvm ).
Anyway, you should be able to run

npm bin

to see the path that you need to add to your

$PATH

. Temporarily you could do something like:

Which should fix it for the current terminal session. Or you can add it to your shell environment for a more long-term solution. (This is usually taken care of during the node.js installation process, though)

If I run

npm bin

I get the response

/Users/henryauffahrt/node_modules/.bin

I put in my .zshrc file the following line

But the errors stay the same

I just installed nvm as you recommend. But the error stays the same 😞

But running works?

I complete throw away my ~/.zshrc config.. it was a mess build up over the years. I also throw away my oh-my-zsh folder. And build up everything new. Currently try to install sanity cli but get an EACCES error. But I don’t want to install it as superuser. Found this documentation to solve it: https://docs.npmjs.com/resolving-eacces-permissions-errors-when-installing-packages-globally

There I found this information in the very beginning “Reinstall npm with a node version manager (recommended),”
The same you recommend me. I already installed nvm. But my current session is not using npm over nvm… after type in

nvm use 16

it works!

But I’m wondering how could I make sure in a new terminal windows session that it will use the nvm version as default?

also on a new terminal windows I need to type in

nvm use16

before I can use

sanity

This is the solution:

nvm alias default 16

Ah, ok. Glad you got it figured out!

Thanks for your help !