Ionic isn't recognized as an internal or external command

Question

I installed Ionic and cordova with npm install -g ionic and npm install -g cordova and when i try to launch a simple command such as

ionic start appname blank

I get the error : Ionic isn't recognized as an internal or external command.

I checked the version installed of both cordova and ionic with npm info ionic version and npm info cordova version and both are correctly installed

cordova : v 6.0.0
ionic : v 1.7.14

I tried to npm clean cache and reinstall both and it does not work either.

My environment path are the following:

User variable : PATH C:\Users\arnaud\AppData\Roaming\npm
System variable : path : C:\Program Files\nodejs\ is present

Thank you for your help

Have you added your global node_modules PATH as an environment variable? — Fabio Antunes, Mar 15 '16 at 11:04
Possible duplicate of [Nodejs cannot find installed module on Windows?](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9587665/nodejs-cannot-find-installed-module-on-windows) — Fabio Antunes, Mar 15 '16 at 12:56

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 15 '16 at 15:38

Have you check your C:\Users\arnaud\AppData\Roaming\npm\bin directory? Maybe ionic and cordova were located in there. If so, add above directory path to your environment variable; If not, just search cordova and ionic in file explorer. Hope this would help you, regards!

Ionic isn't recognized as an internal or external command

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