Jonas Stawski

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!