'electron' is not recognized as an internal or external command

[tinomhishi]

• Electron Version:electron@2.0.3
• Operating System (Platform and Version):Windows 8
• Last known working Electron version: N/A

Expected Behavior
Expected electron to open on command 'electron .'

Actual behavior
error 'electron' is not recognized as an internal or external command
A clear and concise description of what actually happened.

To Reproduce
Your best chance of getting this bug looked at quickly is to provide a REPOSITORY that can be cloned and run.

You can fork electron-quick-start and include a link to the branch with your changes.

If you provide a URL, please list the commands required to clone/setup/run your repo e.g.

$ git clone $YOUR_URL -b $BRANCH
$ npm install
$ npm start || electron .

Screenshots
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Additional Information
Add any other context about the problem here.

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[MarshallOfSound]

@tinomhishi This sounds like you have not installed Electron globally. You haven't filled out the steps to reproduce either here so we can't really help.

In order to run the electron command you need to have node and npm installed and configured correctly then run.

npm i -g electron

[dstoikov96]

Hello, I'm following these steps but after "npm install" i got an error message like this:

Error: read ECONNRESET
    at TLSWrap.onStreamRead (internal/stream_base_commons.js:111:27)
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! errno 1
npm ERR! electron@4.0.8 postinstall: `node install.js`
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Failed at the electron@4.0.8 postinstall script.
npm ERR! This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above.

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     C:\Users\user\AppData\Roaming\npm-cache\_logs\2019-03-12T07_54_51_307Z-debug.log

[chance221]

I am going through a tutorial and trying to use electron with nodemon to watch for changes to the main file but when I run the watch command it comes up as 'electron .' not recognized as a command. I have electron 5.0.0 and nodemon 1.18.9 as devDependencies. Electron is installed globally and nodemon is set as a watch in the package.json. I can run the 'electron .' command from the terminal but it still is not recognizable as a command when nodemon tries to execute on it. Here is a linke to the repo I downloaded for the tutorial https://github.com/stackacademytv/master-electron

[MahmudulHassan5809]

I am going through a tutorial and trying to use electron with nodemon to watch for changes to the main file but when I run the watch command it comes up as 'electron .' not recognized as a command. I have electron 5.0.0 and nodemon 1.18.9 as devDependencies. Electron is installed globally and nodemon is set as a watch in the package.json. I can run the 'electron .' command from the terminal but it still is not recognizable as a command when nodemon tries to execute on it. Here is a linke to the repo I downloaded for the tutorial https://github.com/stackacademytv/master-electron

hey remove the single just put this line "watch": "nodemon --exec electron ."

[sabuncu]

hey remove the single quote and just put this line "watch": "nodemon --exec electron ."

@MahmudulHassan5809 Thank you, your fix worked. Much appreciated.

[Atsukoro1]

legit

[dsuyu1]

• Electron Version:electron@2.0.3
• Operating System (Platform and Version):Windows 8
• Last known working Electron version: N/A

Expected Behavior Expected electron to open on command 'electron .'

Actual behavior error 'electron' is not recognized as an internal or external command A clear and concise description of what actually happened.

To Reproduce Your best chance of getting this bug looked at quickly is to provide a REPOSITORY that can be cloned and run.

You can fork electron-quick-start and include a link to the branch with your changes.

If you provide a URL, please list the commands required to clone/setup/run your repo e.g.

$ git clone $YOUR_URL -b $BRANCH
$ npm install
$ npm start || electron .

Screenshots If applicable, add screenshots to help explain your problem. Additional Information Add any other context about the problem here.

works fr, thank you so much !

[Bargamut]

For those who will find this for case Windows + WSL/

In my case I installed Electron on the Windoes side - at this moment I don't understand why It can't work with installation on Linux side, but after this trick I can start my app on both sides.

Hope it'll be useful for somebody. )