'lite-server' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file

Question

I'm having this error during running the following command on Windows 10.

npm run dev

I'm running lite-server on windows 10, I have tried to solve it using the following commands

npm install -g npm-windows-upgrade
npm install -g concurrently

although I have tried to remove package.json and node modules, reinstalling nodejs. but it seems it is not working.

CMD Err running npm run dev logfile as in the following

1 verbose cli [
1 verbose cli   'C:\\Program Files\\nodejs\\node.exe',
1 verbose cli   'C:\\Program Files\\nodejs\\node_modules\\npm\\bin\\npm-cli.js',
1 verbose cli   'run',
1 verbose cli   'dev'
1 verbose cli ]
2 info using npm@6.12.0
3 info using node@v12.13.0
4 verbose run-script [ 'predev', 'dev', 'postdev' ]
5 info lifecycle AmrAhmed@1.0.0~predev: AmrAhmed@1.0.0
6 info lifecycle AmrAhmed@1.0.0~dev: AmrAhmed@1.0.0
7 verbose lifecycle AmrAhmed@1.0.0~dev: unsafe-perm in lifecycle true
8 verbose lifecycle AmrAhmed@1.0.0~dev: PATH: C:\Program Files\nodejs\node_modules\npm\node_modules\npm-lifecycle\node-gyp-bin;C:\Users\Amr\Desktop\Seecured-master\Seecured-master\election\node_modules\.bin;C:\Users\Amr\bin;C:\Program Files\Git\mingw64\bin;C:\Program Files\Git\usr\local\bin;C:\Program Files\Git\usr\bin;C:\Program Files\Git\usr\bin;C:\Program Files\Git\mingw64\bin;C:\Program Files\Git\usr\bin;C:\Users\Amr\bin;C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Oracle\Java\javapath;C:\ProgramData\Oracle\Java\javapath;C:\Windows\system32;C:\Windows;C:\Windows\System32\Wbem;C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0;C:\Windows\System32\OpenSSH;C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\110\Tools\Binn;C:\Program Files\MATLAB\R2014a\runtime\win64;C:\Program Files\MATLAB\R2014a\bin;C:\Program Files\MATLAB\R2014a\polyspace\bin;C:\Program Files\nodejs;C:\Program Files\Git\cmd;C:\SRC\flutter\bin;C:\Users\Amr\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36\Scripts;C:\Program Files\CMake\bin;C:\Program Files\nodejs;C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Oracle\Java\javapath;C:\ProgramData\Oracle\Java\javapath;C:\Windows\system32;C:\Windows;C:\Windows\System32\Wbem;C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0;C:\Windows\System32\OpenSSH;C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\110\Tools\Binn;C:\Program Files\MATLAB\R2014a\runtime\win64;C:\Program Files\MATLAB\R2014a\bin;C:\Program Files\MATLAB\R2014a\polyspace\bin;C:\Program Files\nodejs;C:\Program Files\Git\cmd;C:\SRC\flutter\bin;C:\Users\Amr\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36\Scripts;C:\Program Files\CMake\bin;C:\Python37\Scripts;C:\Users\Amr\AppData\Local\Programs\Microsoft VS Code\bin;C:\Python37\Scripts;C:\Users\Amr\AppData\Lo;C:\Program Files\nodejs;C:\Program Files\Git\usr\bin\vendor_perl;C:\Program Files\Git\usr\bin\core_perl
9 verbose lifecycle AmrAhmed@1.0.0~dev: CWD: C:\Users\Amr\Desktop\Seecured-master\Seecured-master\election
10 silly lifecycle AmrAhmed@1.0.0~dev: Args: [ '/d /s /c', 'lite-server' ]
11 silly lifecycle AmrAhmed@1.0.0~dev: Returned: code: 1  signal: null
12 info lifecycle AmrAhmed@1.0.0~dev: Failed to exec dev script
13 verbose stack Error: AmrAhmed@1.0.0 dev: `lite-server`
13 verbose stack Exit status 1
13 verbose stack     at EventEmitter.<anonymous> (C:\Program Files\nodejs\node_modules\npm\node_modules\npm-lifecycle\index.js:332:16)
13 verbose stack     at EventEmitter.emit (events.js:210:5)
13 verbose stack     at ChildProcess.<anonymous> (C:\Program Files\nodejs\node_modules\npm\node_modules\npm-lifecycle\lib\spawn.js:55:14)
13 verbose stack     at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:210:5)
13 verbose stack     at maybeClose (internal/child_process.js:1021:16)
13 verbose stack     at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:283:5)
14 verbose pkgid AmrAhmed@1.0.0
15 verbose cwd C:\Users\Amr\Desktop\Seecured-master\Seecured-master\election
16 verbose Windows_NT 10.0.17763
17 verbose argv "C:\\Program Files\\nodejs\\node.exe" "C:\\Program Files\\nodejs\\node_modules\\npm\\bin\\npm-cli.js" "run" "dev"
18 verbose node v12.13.0
19 verbose npm  v6.12.0
20 error code ELIFECYCLE
21 error errno 1
22 error AmrAhmed@1.0.0 dev: `lite-server`
22 error Exit status 1
23 error Failed at the AmrAhmed@1.0.0 dev script.
23 error This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above.
24 verbose exit [ 1, true ]

and the package.json file has the following scripts

{
  "name": "AmrAhmed",
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "description": "",
  "main": "truffle.js",
  "directories": {
    "test": "test"
  },
  "scripts": {
    "dev": "lite-server",
    "test": "echo \"Error: no test specified\" && exit 1"
  },
  "author": "",
  "license": "ISC",
  "devDependencies": {
    "lite-server": "^2.3.0"
  }
}

score 13 · Accepted Answer · edited Jul 05 '20 at 10:09

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you should run this command line

npm install lite-server@2.3 --save-dev

edited Jul 05 '20 at 10:09

mybrave

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answered Jul 05 '20 at 04:54

Thai Nguyen

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered May 19 '20 at 04:21

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I have reinstalled nodejs 12.16.3 Long term support release and it seems the problem is solved and it worked perfectly.

Running Npm run dev

answered May 19 '20 at 04:21

Amr

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score 0 · Answer 3 · edited Jun 25 '22 at 12:13

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I have written a script inside of my package.json file like this and it worked.

"scripts": {
    "start": "npm run lite",
    "lite" : "lite-server"
  }

edited Jun 25 '22 at 12:13

Suraj Rao

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answered Jun 25 '22 at 11:56

Mujahid Ali

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'lite-server' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file

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