Quick question, when I run browserify index.js -o app.js from mac terminal, I get command not found. I have done npm install -g browserify but still no luck. Any idea why I am getting this?
Thank you
It was easier for me to do a gist than to paste here: https://gist.github.com/pertrai1/4ccf77e7b31cb5628b5d
Just install it in a global space like this if you need to run it from the command line.
npm install browserify -g
You may need to run
npm uninstall browserify -g fist just to be sure you don't have false aliases.
dev-dependencies
Add this to your ~/.bashrc or equivalent:
export PATH=$PATH:~/.npm-global/bin/
Then, to actually have this take effect in your terminal session, execute source ~/.bashrc.
At this point you can execute browserify, as well as potentially many other commands. Check out ~/.npm-global/bin/ to see what's become available.
I could not get browserify to work either.
Running ~/.npm/bin/browserify does work.
Other packages seem to run fine (phantomjs for instance).
A workaround fix seems to be adding alias browserify='~/.npm/bin/browserify' to your .bash_profile
It is an old post but I believe people are still facing the same problem, like me.
This was how I solved my problem:
<your project folder>/node_modules/browserify/bin/cmd.js main.js -o bundle.js 
If you install locally npm install browserify, you can use this method to execute the browserify command.
node_modules/.bin/browserify
For example: broweserify command example
Extra tips:
Add this command to your packages.js file:
... "scripts": { "test": "echo \"Error: no test specified\" && exit 1", "bundle": "node_modules/.bin/browserify index.js > bundle.js" }, Then everytime you want to bundle you file just hit npm run bundle
Hope it helps you guys out there..
If for some reason the browserify command has not been installed at all (can happen for example if you're running Homebrew on old unsupported Mac OS X versions), an alternative is to call it via node, for example:
export NODE_PATH=/usr/local/share/npm/lib/node_modules node -e 'require("browserify")("input.js").bundle().pipe(fs.createWriteStream("output.js"))' As a Mac user I had to add
export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/Cellar/node/13.6.0/bin/ in ~.bash_profile Why Cellar path i dont know.
I'm using the default zsh shell and I came across a solution: sudo npm install browserify -g
After that sudo browserify AND browserify worked flawlessly. I guess mine was a simple permissions issue.
I'm running Ventura.
This is my solution to solve it within project directory, not by global
npm install browserify npx browserify main.js -o bundle.js 
npm install -g browserify?/Users/robsimpson/npm/bin/browserify -> /Users/robsimpson/npm/lib/node_modules/browserify/bin/cmd.jsnow. Does/Users/robsimpson/npm/bin/browserifywork when you try to run it?