flow init command not found after installing flow on my project

[Hayko1994]

I used npm for installing while the second command node_modules/.bin/flow
shows not found and after that flow init not found as well. In the package.json of my project I've found flow bin. What can cause this problem?

[gopaldevra]

Getting the same error why? please let me know.

[jimmythai]

@Hayko1994 @gopaldevra
The same error occurred to my project, but I found a solution for it.
Try the code below. Cheers.

$ yarn add --dev flow-bin
$ node_modules/.bin/flow init
$ yarn run flow

[abharvey]

or with npm make sure you npm run flow and have the flow added to your scripts in package.json

[RayOconnor]

I was getting this error in the flow window despite having flow working via the terminal...

Error:Timeout on starting language service process

I downloaded the most recent version of phpStorm and the problem resolved itself.

[freedom9x]

Or just add flow-bin to global:

$ yarn global add flow-bin
$ flow init

[gknifefight]

Or just add flow-bin to global:

$ yarn global add flow-bin
$ flow init

@freedom9x - Realize this is a bit dated, but for google sake adding what I found after looking through this thread.

From: https://flow.org/en/docs/install/
"Flow works best when installed per-project with explicit versioning rather than globally."
"Note: you may need to runyarn run flow init before executingyarn run flow."

[intoro]

If it is installed in the project directory I had to use the command with the path:
node_modules/.bin/flow -help

or

node_modules/.bin/flow -help