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

Question

I'm getting error in my Vs Code terminal and command prompt that 'ts-node' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file. while i'm trying the start command in the terminal npm run dev and i have added my package.json file also.

{
"name": "tsnode",
"version": "1.0.0",
"description": "ts-node experiment.",
"scripts": {
    "dev": "nodemon --exec 'ts-node --cache-directory .tscache' ./server.ts",
    "start": "ts-node --fast ./server.ts"
},
"author": "Mugesh",
"license": "ISC",
"dependencies": {
    "@types/body-parser": "^1.16.3",
    "@types/chalk": "^0.4.31",
    "@types/express": "^4.0.35",
    "@types/node": "^7.0.18",
    "body-parser": "^1.17.1",
    "chalk": "^1.1.3",
    "express": "^4.15.2",
    "nodemon": "^1.11.0",
    "ts-node": "^3.0.4",
    "typescript": "^2.3.4"
}

}

Answer 1

You need to install ts-node as global

npm install -g ts-node

More information

https://github.com/TypeStrong/ts-node