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[Windows] 'ts-node' is not recognized as an internal or external command,

See original GitHub issue

Steps taken to reproduce:

run npm i -g prisma2@2.0.0-preview-13
run prisma2 init hello-world
select GraphQL API starter kit + TypeScript

error:

Downloading the starter kit from GitHub ...
✔  Extracting content to hello-world ...
✔  Installing dependencies with: `npm install` ...
✔  Preparing your database ...
⠙  Seeding your database with: `npm run seed` ...
 ERROR  Error during command execution

'ts-node' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

I am guessing that this is because I don’t have ts-node installed globally on my PC ?

When I ran npm i -g ts-node and retried, I got the following error:


✔  Downloading the starter kit from GitHub ...
✔  Extracting content to hello-world1 ...
✔  Installing dependencies with: `npm install` ...
✔  Preparing your database ...
⠸  Seeding your database with: `npm run seed` ...
 ERROR  Error during command execution

internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:583
    throw err;
    ^

Error: Cannot find module 'typescript'
    at Function.Module._resolveFilename (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:581:15)
    at Function.resolve (internal/modules/cjs/helpers.js:32:19)
    at Object.register (C:\Users\Bruno\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\ts-node\dist\index.js:138:30)
    at Object.<anonymous> (C:\Users\Bruno\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\ts-node\dist\bin.js:94:25)
    at Module._compile (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:689:30)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:700:10)
    at Module.load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:599:32)
    at tryModuleLoad (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:538:12)
    at Function.Module._load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:530:3)
    at Function.Module.runMain (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:742:12)
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! errno 1
npm ERR! typescript-graphql@ seed: `ts-node prisma/seed.ts`
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Failed at the typescript-graphql@ seed script.
npm ERR! This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above.

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     C:\Users\Bruno\AppData\Roaming\npm-cache\_logs\2019-09-27T11_01_55_586Z-debug.log