Cordova CLI command returns nothing even “cordova --version”, installation issue?

Question

Recently, I needed to try developing a cordova application. I installed android studio with no problem. Then I went on for Nodejs. I got Nodejs 6.0 installed on my Windows 7 system.

It worked fine. Then I tried to install cordova with npm command :

npm install -g cordova

It seemed finally ok. The verbose message appeared and the graphical text displayed the folder structure of the installed components, which I thought, this tells me the success install.

When I typed node --version , it showed 6.0.0 , the nodejs has been installed correctly.

Then I typed npm --version , it showed 3.8.8 . So npm works ok.

After that, I typed cordova --version to validate the installation, it seemed to fetch something for a little while and return the prompt without printing anything or even its version.

I took another try, I typed cordova help . Same thing, there's nothing happen. It just failed or got error somehow silently.

I removed cordova with npm uninstall -g cordova , and tried install again to eventually get the same result. I even tried to remove nodejs and re-install all over again but no luck.

Is there anyone out there faced the same to me? And how did you solve this problem? Any idea?

Answer 1

1. Make sure this is in your System Path (under : PC -> Properties -> Advanced System Settings -> Environment Variables )

   C:\\Users\\ Your User \\AppData\\Roaming\\npm

2. Try to close and re-open your command prompt ;)