New install of Node, Yo,@microsoft/sharepoint - error running sharepoint generator "generator.run is not a function"

Question

New fresh install of Node, Yo etc on winows 10

when I run "yo @microsoft/sharepoint" I get:

 _-----_

|       |    .--------------------------.

|--(o)--|    |      Welcome to the      |
```   `---------´   |  SharePoint Client-side  |

( ´U` ) | Solution Generator |

/A\ '--------------------------'

| ~ |

 ´   `  |° ´ Y `

Error: generator.run is not a function

Error @microsoft/sharepoint

generator.run is not a function

Answer 1

Hi @Shawn Persels,

Per my research, you could fix the issue by downgrade to version 4.3.1. You could use the following command

npm install -g yo@4.3.1 generator-generator

And here is a similar issue with yours, please make a reference

https://github.com/yeoman/generator-generator/issues/258

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