Generators installed while using NVM are not showing in Yo generators list

[tconroy]

Node Version: v4.2.4 (set via NVM)
NPM Version: v3.5.4 (set via NVM)
Yo version: 1.5.1
OS: OSX 10.11.2

I use NVM to hop between Node versions. My system Node version is 0.12.9, and I've installed 4.2.4 through NVM.

When I try to install a generator in 4.2.4 (for example, npm install -g generator-react-webpack), the generator appears to download and install correctly, however when I then try to use it via yo react-webpack, I get the message:

Error react-webpack

You don't seem to have a generator with the name react-webpack installed.
You can see available generators with npm search yeoman-generator and then install them with npm install [name].
To see the 32 registered generators run yo with the `--help` option.

when I run plain old yo, the react-webpack generator is not listed.

Here's some debug info (executed in project root):

$ yo --version && echo $PATH $NODE_PATH && node -e 'console.log(process.platform, process.versions)' && cat Gruntfile.js
1.5.1
/Users/Tom/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.0.0-p645/bin:/Users/Tom/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.0.0-p645@global/bin:/Users/Tom/.rvm/rubies/ruby-2.0.0-p645/bin:/Users/Tom/.nvm/versions/node/v4.2.4/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/Users/Tom/.rvm/bin
darwin { http_parser: '2.5.0',
  node: '4.2.4',
  v8: '4.5.103.35',
  uv: '1.7.5',
  zlib: '1.2.8',
  ares: '1.10.1-DEV',
  icu: '56.1',
  modules: '46',
  openssl: '1.0.2e' }
cat: Gruntfile.js: No such file or directory

running npm -g root

$ npm -g root
/Users/Tom/.nvm/versions/node/v4.2.4/lib/node_modules

Here is the output of yo doctor:

$ yo doctor

Yeoman Doctor
Running sanity checks on your system

✔ Global configuration file is valid
✔ NODE_PATH matches the npm root
✔ Node.js version
✔ No .bowerrc file in home directory
✔ No .yo-rc.json file in home directory
✔ npm version

Everything looks all right!

any ideas?

[SBoudrias]

ls /Users/Tom/.nvm/versions/node/v4.2.4/lib/node_modules/generator-react-webpack and make sure the same folder is chown to you.

[tconroy]

appears to be:

$ ls -l /Users/Tom/.nvm/versions/node/v4.2.4/lib/node_modules/generator-react-webpack
total 48
-rw-r--r--    1 Tom  staff   1637 Jan 13 01:54 CHANGELOG.md
-rw-r--r--    1 Tom  staff   1052 Sep 22 01:19 LICENSE
-rw-r--r--    1 Tom  staff   5597 Dec 29 02:20 README.md
drwxr-xr-x    4 Tom  staff    136 Jan 19 17:35 generators
-rw-r--r--    1 Tom  staff    159 Nov 20 02:28 jsconfig.json
drwxr-xr-x  343 Tom  staff  11662 Jan 19 17:35 node_modules
-rw-r--r--    1 Tom  staff   3008 Jan 19 17:35 package.json
drwxr-xr-x    5 Tom  staff    170 Jan 19 17:35 test

[billyvg]

I'm having the same problem, I'm setting NODE_PATH to my nvm node_modules dir as a temp fix.

[kmcgrath]

Having problems even with NODE_PATH being set:

USLT-205529:~ kevin.mcgrath$ yo
? 'Allo Kevin! What would you like to do? Install a generator
? Search npm for generators: lambda-formation
? Here's what I found. Official generator → ෴
  Install one? lambda-formation Yeoman generator for creating Lambda projects compatible with CloudFormation
/Users/kevin.mcgrath/.nvm/versions/node/v6.0.0/lib
└── generator-lambda-formation@0.1.3 


I just installed a generator by running:

    npm install -g generator-lambda-formation

? 'Allo Kevin! What would you like to do? Get me out of here!

     _-----_
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    |--(o)--|    |      Bye from us!     |
   `---------´   |       Chat soon.      |
    ( _´U`_ )    |      Yeoman team      |
    /___A___\    |    http://yeoman.io   |
     |  ~  |     '-----------------------'
   __'.___.'__   
 ´   `  |° ´ Y ` 

USLT-205529:~ kevin.mcgrath$ yo --generators
Available Generators:

  Couldn't find any generators, did you install any? Troubleshoot issues by running

  $ yo doctor
USLT-205529:~ kevin.mcgrath$ echo $NODE_PATH
/Users/kevin.mcgrath/.nvm/versions/node/v6.0.0/lib/node_modules
USLT-205529:~ kevin.mcgrath$ ls -al /Users/kevin.mcgrath/.nvm/versions/node/v6.0.0/lib/node_modules
total 0
drwxr-xr-x   5 kevin.mcgrath  382466515  170 May  4 21:27 .
drwxr-xr-x   4 kevin.mcgrath  382466515  136 Apr 26 15:41 ..
drwxr-xr-x   5 kevin.mcgrath  382466515  170 May  4 21:27 generator-lambda-formation
drwxr-xr-x  23 kevin.mcgrath  382466515  782 Apr 26 15:42 npm
drwxr-xr-x   6 kevin.mcgrath  382466515  204 May  4 21:22 yo
USLT-205529:~ kevin.mcgrath$ yo doctor

Yeoman Doctor
Running sanity checks on your system

✔ Global configuration file is valid
✔ Node.js version
✔ No .bowerrc file in home directory
✔ No .yo-rc.json file in home directory
✔ npm version
✔ NODE_PATH matches the npm root

Everything looks all right!

I've tried with node versions 4 and 5 also, with the same result.

[SBoudrias]

Try updating yo npm -g update yo. We release a new version of yeoman-environment that should account better for people using nvm.

[efernandesng]

In my case I've resolve removing yo module installed with system node package and install again using with nvm node.

$ nvm use system
$ sudo npm uninstall yo -g
$ nvm use 4
$ npm i yo -g

[honeyjie]

Yeoman Doctor
Running sanity checks on your system

✔ Global configuration file is valid
✔ NODE_PATH matches the npm root
✔ Node.js version
✖ No .bowerrc file in home directory

We found a undefined file in your home directory. This can cause
issues by overriding expected default config. Prefer setting up one .bowerrc per
project.

To delete the file, run: rm ~/.bowerrc

✖ No .yo-rc.json file in home directory

Found a NaN file in your home directory. Delete it otherwise
Yeoman will generate everything in your home rather then your project folder.

To delete the file, run: rm ~/.yo-rc.json

✔ npm version

Found potential issues on your machine :(
/usr/local/lib
└── yo@1.8.5

[mozillalives]

Just adding a comment here in case anyone comes to this page and doesn't find the solution above.

The reason I had issues on my machine was because I first installed node using homebrew, then I installed yo through homebrew node, then I switched to nvm and uninstalled homebrew node. Unfortunately this left the brew installed yo and node_modules in my PATH. I probably could have just altered my PATH, but instead I decided to just delete the unneeded yo and node_modules.

rm /usr/local/bin/yo
rm -rf /usr/local/lib/node_modules