Uvu CLI not available: "uvu: not found"

I can succesfully run isolated tests vía the node -r tsm tests/MyTest.ts command. Yet whenever I try to run uvu -r tsm tests or any command that starts with uvu, I get the following error:

uvu: not found

I have uvu 0.5.5 installed:

[Lucasmiguelmac]

Ok, didn’t got that part. Thank you very much!

[lukeed]

No, this is how npm works. If I understand your additional comments correctly – and pairing it with your lack of "test" script in your package.json – you were trying to run uvu -r tsm ... directly in your command line, which is asking for a global uvu executable For that, you do have to have uvu (or any) installed globally.

Had you had this in your package.json:

// package.json
{
  "scripts": {
    // ...
    "test": "uvu -r tsm tests"
  }
}

And then run npm test, it would have worked because npm is invoked & told to run uvu ... which looks at the project’s own dependencies for the uvu binary (and a tsm package). This is true for yarn and everything else.