Having trouble with standalone Panini directions: CLI says 'command not found'

[aalokt89]

I love the power of panini, but I want to use it without the Zurb stack. I'm trying to set up my project but the documentation is very thin and not detailed for beginners (I'm admittedly a beginner with gulp). Is there a detailed guide or simple example project example anywhere?

Steps I've taken so far:

1. npm init
2. npm install panini --save-dev
3. npm install gulp --save-dev
4. (?) Manually created the proper file structure (src/pages, layouts, partials, data, components assets | dist) (?)
5. Created a new gulpfile.js and copied the snippet from github:

   
   var gulp = require('gulp');
   var panini = require('panini');

gulp.task('default', function() { gulp.src('pages/*/.html') .pipe(panini({ root: 'pages/', layouts: 'layouts/', partials: 'partials/', helpers: 'helpers/', data: 'data/' })) .pipe(gulp.dest('build')); });

gulp.watch(['./src/{layouts,partials,helpers,data}/*/'], [panini.refresh]);

Now I'm not really sure what to do. I also tried via the CLI with `panini --root=src/pages --layouts=src/layouts --partials=src/partials --data=src/data --output=dist 'src/pages/**/*.html` but I get a 'command not found' error. Any help would be much appreciated! 

[marvinhuebner]

If you want to use panini via cli you have to install it globally, start it via npm script or via npx.

You can install panini globally via npm install -g panini, then you can simply use panini in the cli.

Via an npm script it works as follows. You have to add a command panini in the scripts section of package.json.

{
  "scripts": {
    "panini": "panini"
  },
  "devDependencies": {
    "panini": "^1.3.0"
  }
}

Then you can use it the following way: npm run panini -- --root=src/pages --layouts=src/layouts --partials=src/partials --data=src/data --output=dist

And from npm version 5.2 you can simply run npx panini --root=src/pages --layouts=src/layouts --partials=src/partials --data=src/data --output=dist.

This should fix your Command not found error.

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Without seeing the whole project it is difficult to find the mistake with gulp.

[DanielRuf]

Closing as stale.