Correct way to put node_modules/.bin on PATH for WebStorm

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I'm using WebStorm for a fairly straightforward project using Node, NPM, and Gulp. One of my Gulp tasks ends up doing gulp lint in a subprocess, and unless I have gulp on my PATH, I get

[14:20:37] Starting 'lint-parallel'...
events.js:160
      throw er; // Unhandled 'error' event
      ^

Error: spawn gulp ENOENT
    at exports._errnoException (util.js:1018:11)
    at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:193:32)
    at onErrorNT (internal/child_process.js:367:16)
    at _combinedTickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:80:11)
    at process._tickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:104:9)

So my question: what's the correct way to set up WebStorm so node_modules/.bin is on my PATH? I ended up setting PATH in Gulp Settings → Environment to node_modules/.bin:<rest of path>, but it felt very manual for pretty basic behavior. Or should I have PATH=node_modules/.bin:$PATH in my shell profile and let WebStorm pick it up that way?

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1 Answers

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WebStorm inherits your interactive shell environment when being started from terminal, and uses environment variables configured in ~/.profile (login shell) when launched from Desktop or System menu. So you need to make sure that node_modules/.bin is added to your $PATH in the corresponding config to get it picked up