Installing NPM packages requires Node to be installed on the machine

[billti]

Feedback below. If this is indeed the case, we should update the error string.

I don’t have Node installed and configured on my machine but I do have the node.exe in a directory.
Now I create a new Node.js project and want to add a new Node module.
When I right click on the Npm node and choose “Install new NPM package” I got the message that Node is not installed and that I should either install Node or configure the path to Node.exe in the project properties.
I configured the path and it was still not working.

According to this, this behavior is expected, so I suggest that you change the message string

[mousetraps]

Agreed. For additional context, the npm path comes from the node.exe path, so this error will throw if npm is not in the same directory.

[mjbvz]

#1097 improved the messaging here to make it more clear what is going wrong. It now states if npm is not found.