Cannot start npm serve on MacOS, IntelliJ ultimate on vuejs project-CodePudding

I am failing to start npm serve at Run/Debug Configuration in IntelliJ.
But doing it separately in Terminal within IntelliJ or on plain console works.

What's going on? How to solve that?

Here's what the Run console shows:

/usr/local/bin/node /usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/bin/npm-cli.js run serve --scripts-prepend-node-path=auto

> [email protected] serve
> node_modules/.bin/vue-cli-service serve

env: node: No such file or directory

Process finished with exit code 127

As mentioned before running the command

/usr/local/bin/node /usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/bin/npm-cli.js run serve --scripts-prepend-node-path=auto

on a terminal will properly work; even in IntelliJ.

At IntelliJ/Preferences.../Languages & Frameworks/Node.js and NPM the Node interpreter is set to /usr/local/bin/node and the Package manager is set to /usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm They both do exist.

What the frag is going on?
I would love to get a deeper understanding of the whole thing and do appreciate any inseide views on this.

CodePudding user response：

The issue is that node is not on your $PATH; on MacOSX the environment variables differ between GUI applications and within the terminal. Terminal environment is only available to applications started from terminal. To solve this problem, IDEA tries to load terminal environment by executing some scripts on startup, but it seems that it can't retrieve all needed stuff in your case - thus the issue. As a workaround, you can try starting IDEA from terminal.

Some links you may find useful: http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/106355/setting-the-system-wide-path-environment-variable-in-mavericks, http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/51677/how-to-set-path-for-finder-launched-applications.. The problem is that the way to define system-wide environment variables on Mac changes from one version to another (even minor system updates may break your environment)

CodePudding user response：

As lena answered, it did help. Thank you for your help! Starting it from the terminal does the job.

In my case I build a starter script

#! /bin/bash
/Applications/IntelliJ\ IDEA.app/Contents/MacOS/idea &

I am running the ultimate version of IntelliJ. The CE version does have another path to start!

The next two nice things to have would be

to have the opened terminal window automatically closed
link it with a proper icon placed on the desktop.

If anyone can help, go ahead!-)