The term 'percy' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet

[konstantinschuette]

The problem

After running npm install --save-dev @percy/cli @percy/cypress on my CI windows machine the command percy is still not available in the powershell.

Executing percy in the powershell throws the following error:

percy : The term 'percy' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable program. Check the spelling of the name, or if a path was included,
verify that the path is correct and try again.
At line:1 char:1
+ percy
+ ~~~
    + CategoryInfo          : ObjectNotFound: (npm:String) [], CommandNotFoundException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : CommandNotFoundException

Environment

• Node version: 16.14.2
• NPM version: 8.5.0
• @percy/cli version:
• OS version: Windows Server 2009 Standard
• Type of shell command-line [interface]: Windows powershell

Details

As a temporary fix I've added npx before running the tests. Then the execution of percy commands is possible. But I guess that shouldn't be the way to go.

Code to reproduce issue

npm install --save-dev @percy/cli @percy/cypress
percy

[Robdel12]

Hey @konstantinschuette!

As a temporary fix I've added npx before running the tests. Then the execution of percy commands is possible. But I guess that shouldn't be the way to go.

This is the correct way to do this. The reason you have to use npx is percy is not installed globally (so it's not in %PATH%). Using npx will look up the percy CLI binary in the local node_modules folder for you. This is pretty much doing \node_modules\.bin\percy.cmd exec -- [...]