Laravel 5.4 ‘cross-env’ Is Not Recognized as an Internal or External Command

You need to make cross-env working globally instead of having it in the project.

1) remove node_modules folder

2) run

npm install --global cross-env

3) remove "cross-env": "^5.0.1", from package.json file devDependencies section. Actually, you can skip this step and keep package.json intact. If you prefer.

4) run

npm install --no-bin-links

5) run

npm run dev

and see it working

P.S Tested on Windows 10 with Laravel-5.4

P.P.S Windows 10 with Laravel-5.6 does not have this problem, thus updating is an alternative solution.

First run:

rm -rf node_modules
rm package-lock.json yarn.lock
npm cache clear --force

Then run the command

npm install cross-env

npm install 

and then you can also run

npm run dev

Following these steps solved my problem.

1. Delete node_modules directory
2. Delete package-lock.json file
3. Start command prompt as Administrator <- important
4. Run npm install
5. Run npm run dev