Are you trying to use the Angular CLI (Command Line Interface) to create a new Angular project or run various Angular commands?
You may encounter the error "ng is not recognized as an internal or external command." This error can be frustrating and can prevent you from being able to use the Angular CLI as intended.
In this tutorial, we will review some common causes of this error and how to fix it. By the end of this tutorial, you should be able to successfully use the Angular CLI without encountering this error.
How to Solve ng is not Recognized as an Internal Or External Command
Step 1: Select the system and security options on the control panel.
Step 2: A new dialogue box appears when you choose the system and security option there. After then, you must right-click the system.
Step 3: Upon clicking the system, a dialogue window appears. You must now click here after selecting the advanced System setting.
Step 4: A dialogue box opens when you click on the advanced setting. You must now click on the environment variables under the system attribute.
Step 5: When you click on the environment variable, a dialogue window opens. Now that you've seen it, there are two variables—one for the system and one for the user. You must now go to the user variable, click the edit button, create your own user variable, input the variable's pathname, and then paste the path values from your computer, namely C:\Program Files\nodejs\node_modules\npm\bin. Paste this path and click on the ok button.
Step 6: Now you need to go to the system variable, choose the path you added as a user variable, update that path by selecting the edit button, adding the copied path, and then clicking the OK button.
Once you've finished this procedure, you must use the ng version command to check how your system displays the CLI version. This command is ng --version.
Conclusion
For several causes, you could encounter the issue "ng is not Recognized as an Internal or an External Command." It's conceivable that the angular command line tool needed to be installed or that the ng installation path needed to be added to the Path environment variable. Installing Angular/cli using NPM is the first option, and adding the ng path to Windows advanced settings is the second. This article has listed workable methods to fix the Windows issue.
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
Here are some frequently asked questions related to ng not recognized issue in Windows OS.
1. How to solve ng is not recognized as an internal or external command in angular Windows 10?
You can use the exact same steps that are mentioned above to solve this problem of Angular in Windows 10.
2. Why ng is not recognized as an internal and external command?
If you have not set the ng path in Windows then "ng is not Recognized as an Internal or an External Command" would occur. To access ng from the command line, you must add ng to the Windows path.
3. How to install ng for Angular?
You can easily install ng for Angular with only one command. Use the following command in the command prompt and hit enter -
npm install -g @angular/cli
