I read the BBEdit documentation but did not understand it, so thanks for 
the explanation.

I'll try these steps and see if they don't improve the situation.

Much appreciated.

--- GR

On Tuesday, March 3, 2026 at 1:31:39 PM UTC-8 GP wrote:

> Hmm ... "paths to my .zshrc file" ...
>
> Did you read BBEdit's Regarding environment variables when using “zsh” 
> <https://www.barebones.com/support/bbedit/zshenv.html>?
>
> According to that, "BBEdit runs zsh as a non-interactive shell, zsh does 
> not load ~/.zshrc" so you need to "move $PATH (and other environment 
> settings) into ~/.zprofile" which will get loaded by zsh in a 
> non-interactive invocation.
>
> Also, did you install the ServBay CLI per the ServBay CLI: Installation, 
> Configuration & Usage Guide 
> <https://support.servbay.com/basic-usage/command-line-support%20directions>
> ?
>
> Although the directions are slightly outdated (by referencing bash as the 
> default MacOS shell), the context of applying "Install CLI Tool to zsh" 
> seems to imply modifying .zshrc, which per the above BBEdit support 
> document won't work to add Servbay's installed tools path to the invoked 
> non-interactive shell's $PATH.
>
> Without physically installing ServBay and checking what "Install CLI Tool 
> to zsh" does, I assume that command modifies an existing ~/.zshrc file (or 
> creates one if needed) by adding:
>
> export PATH="/Applications/ServBay/script:$PATH"
>
> to it, as the Servbay support Command-Line Tool: servbayctl 
> <https://support.servbay.com/basic-usage/command-line-tool-servbayctl> 
> article's 
> Prerequisites section recommends.
>
> With all that covered:
>
> 1. Check your ~/.zshrc file. Does it have the above export PATH command in 
> it? 
>
> a. If so, move it to ~/.zprofile (creating the ~/.zprofile file if needed).
>
> b. If not, check the ~/.zprofile file (if one exists) to see if the above 
> export PATH command is in it. If the file or command doesn't exist, create 
> the file (if necessary) and add the command to it.
>
> 2. Open the MacOS Terminal app and check the ServBay installed tools can 
> be found using the now-configured ~/.zshrc and ~/.zprofile export PATH 
> arrangement. (Tool version commands are one way to check.)
>
> 3. If 2. works, repeat with a BBEdit Shell Worksheet to check the ServBay 
> installed tools can be found.
> On Monday, March 2, 2026 at 7:03:29 AM UTC-8 Greg Raven wrote:
>
>> I used MAMP Pro for years in my local dev environment, and project 
>> worksheet commands (such as, to invoke js-beautify, netlify, and wrangler) 
>> worked fine. MAMP Pro's rough edges finally got to me, though, and I 
>> switched to Servbay, which in many cases seems to be a superior local 
>> environment.
>>
>> However, even though I have PHP, Python, Node, Rust, and Go installed, 
>> worksheet commands that used to allow me to upload files to Netlify or 
>> Cloudflare, as well as format JavaScript and JSON files, no longer work. 
>> When I try to invoke them, I get either a "js-beautify not found" or "node 
>> not found" console error.
>>
>> I don't mind (too much) having to copy-paste the upload commands, but I 
>> miss the JavaScript formatting.
>>
>> I read the BBEdit documents, tried adding aliases and paths to my .zshrc 
>> file, putting the commands in worksheets, trying different command-line 
>> syntaxes, etc., but either I'm missing something or this is simply not 
>> possible to do, even though the commands do work just fine from the command 
>> line.
>>
>> Anyone else run into this and come up with a solution?
>>
>

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