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Add instructions on setting NPM_BIN_PATH on Windows
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YDX-2147483647 authored Jul 27, 2023
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NPM_BIN_PATH = '/usr/local/bin/npm'
```

On *Windows* it might look like this:
On *Windows*, you may have npm on `$PATH` but it's `npm.cmd` rather than `npm`. If so, please override the default `NPM_BIN_PATH = 'npm'`:

```python
NPM_BIN_PATH = 'npm.cmd'
```

Alternatively, you can also set the full path to `npm.cmd`. It might look like this:

```python
NPM_BIN_PATH = r"C:\Program Files\nodejs\npm.cmd"
```

Please note that the path to the `npm` executable may be different for your system. To get the `npm` path, try running
the command `which npm` in your terminal.
the command `which npm` in your terminal. (On *Windows*, please try `where npm` or `Get-Command npm`)

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