"babel: command not found". Babel is not available when installed locally

babel is not available when installed locally. Error thrown:

$ babel react-server.js --out-file react-server-c.js
sh.exe": babel: command not found

I want to compile React components. I follow this setup https://babeljs.io/docs/setup/#babel_cli. It says:

While you can install Babel CLI globally on your machine, it’s much better to install it locally project by project.

Ok. I uninstall global babel:

npm uninstall --global babel-cli

And install babel locally in my app:

npm install --save-dev babel-cli

Now I have it in my app’s package.json file:

  "devDependencies": {
    "gulp": "^3.9.0",
    "babel-cli": "^6.3.17"
  }

And now I do as tutorial says, I run babel to compile my file and get an error that babel is not found:

$ babel react-server.js --out-file react-server-c.js
sh.exe": babel: command not found

My system: “babel-cli”: “^6.3.17”, window 8.1 npm 2.5.1 node v0.12.0

[wzup]

What if I don’t want to use npm scripts and want to use plain vanilla cli? Should be covered in docs.

[hzoo]

Yeah if you uninstall it globally then there won’t be a direct alias to babel without using ./node_modules/.bin/babel or using babel as a npm script.