Jonas Stawski

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nodejs suddenly stopped working on Visual Studio Online Build Server

If you are using nodejs during your build in Visual Studio Online and your builds started to fail then you can blame the VSO team :).

You probably received the following error:

node : The term 'node' 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.

In short, they recently published a new Build Virtual Machine image and forgot to add nodejs folder to the PATH environment variable. The team is fixing the issue, but it takes them a few days for the new VM to go online. In the meantime you have two options:

1. Use the full path: C:\Program Files\nodejs\node

2. If you are using PowerShell add the folder to the PATH: 

$env:Path="$env:Path;C:\Program Files\nodejs"

 

Happy Building!

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