zsh: command not found: nvm

Question

Recently, I've been trying to use nvm to manage node version. I successfully installed nvm on Mac OS Catalina(10.15.6) and I can switch between version from the terminal.

However, if I try to do the same thing with the integrated terminal on VSCode, I get zsh: command not found: nvm

Been looking for solutions or workaround, but there seems to be no relevant answers. Has anyone figure this out?

Thanks in Advance

Answer 1

When I installed VSCode, oh-my-zsh and NVM using homebrew I had the same issue. It appears to put wrong paths in ~/.zshrc (might be the same for bash).

Solution:

1. Open ~/.zshrc or ~/.bashrc
2. Create a backup of that file in case something goes wrong
3. Compare paths under the line

export NVM_DIR="$HOME/.nvm"

3. Now you need to fix the two paths if different than those below

[ -s "$NVM_DIR/nvm.sh" ] && \. "$NVM_DIR/nvm.sh" # This loads nvm

[ -s "$NVM_DIR/bash_completion" ] && \. "$NVM_DIR/bash_completion" # This loads nvm bash_completion

4. Type source ~/.zshrc or source ~/.bashrc in terminal depending on what you use.
5. Restart VSCode built-in terminal and see if that helped. Good luck!

Answer 2

I figured this out so I'll post an answer.

• BTW I'm a Mac user. Not really sure about windows.

The reason why I get the zsh: command not found error was because I had Visual Studio Code placed under the Documents directory.

It seems like VSCODE terminal works properly when it is set under the Applications folder .

Make sure to place VSCode under Application folder.