'Protractor' is not recognized as an internal or external command

In this article, I am going to discuss one of the common problems that every newbie face while trying to work with protractor first time.

To understand the problem statement and solution let’s get started with the protractor installation.

As we all are aware for running protractor one of the prerequisites is having node.js installed in the machine which can be installed using this link.

After installing node modules

Now for installing Protractor globally, we need to use the below commands.

Now if we tried to check the protractor version Sometimes it happens, we get an error message like below

‘protractor’ is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.

This issue usually occurs because of the path issue on the windows machine and we need to make sure that the correct path of a node is configured in the windows machine.

To fix this issue we need to follow

PATH: C:\Program Files\nodejs;

C:\Users<<user>>\AppData\Roaming\npm;