'vue-cli-service' is not recognized as an internal or external command - when running "yarn run electron:serve"

[TimPietrusky]

When executing yarn run electron:serve on Windows, I get this error:

$ vue-cli-service electron:serve
'vue-cli-service' is not recognized as an internal or external command

I tried to do this:

npm install -g @vue/cli
vue add electron-builder

but this doesn't work. What should we do here to solve it?

[2xAA]

@vue/cli-service and vue-cli-plugin-electron-builder are part of the repo's packages.

If a package was installed as a devDependency it should be locally executable from ./node_modules/.bin as those binaries are added to the $PATH.

As those executables are nested, could it be your yarn version is out of date?
You might want to check your ./node_modules/.bin folder for the "missing" executables.

Apparently yarn had an issues with nested executables a while ago: yarnpkg/yarn#760

I'd like to avoid having npx as a dependency as we're not reliant on npm.

[2xAA]

For reference:

My current yarn version is v1.22.4 and the only global modules I have are commitizen and windows-build-tools.

On Windows I've used PowerShell as admin and the repo from builds cleanly. Tested on a new clone.

[TimPietrusky]

• I updated yarn to v1.22.4
• Removed node_modules
• Removed @vue/cli & electron-builder globally with npm

But still doesn't run. Maybe something wrong with my PATH?

[TimPietrusky]

The main folder of my projects was created in WSL, which means is case-sensitive by default. This can be validated on Windows with on the CLI:

fsutil.exe file queryCaseSensitiveInfo <path-to-the-folder-you-want-to-check>

# Example
fsutil.exe file queryCaseSensitiveInfo "C:\dev"

Then I recreated the parent folder, clone the repo and installed everything and now it works.

[TimPietrusky]

It would be nice if we could link to the solution in the documentation, as this might happen to other people using WSL mixed with CMD/Powershell.

[2xAA]

Totally. I will add this.

[2xAA]

More detail can be found here: yarnpkg/yarn#5813