As of v7, pnpm dlx is the same as pnpx. It downloads a package and executes it. pnpm create is a shorthand for pnpm dlx, when you need to create an app. So, for instance, pnpm create react-app my-app will download the create-react-app package and run it to bootstrap a react app. It is the … Read more
The are are two key uses of npx. Running executables inside your downloaded dependencies For example npx jest. The pnpm equivalent is pnpm exec jest. Running executable commands in packages you want to download transiently For example npx create-react-app my-app. The pnpm equivalent of this is pnpm dlx create-react-app my-app. Note: There used to be … Read more
npm version 7 will cache the packages in a _npx directory. It has a cache layout that apparently involves a hash. For example, for me npx shellcheck installs the executable in ~/.npm/_npx/cca5ebdff9ce100b/node_modules/.bin/shellcheck. (Note the cca5ebdff9ce100b.) However, I very much doubt that the algorithm can be relied upon to be consistent across versions of npx. The … Read more
You can do following if you are not willing to type ‘yes’ everytime you install. npm_config_yes=true npx cowsay “hello” See this https://github.com/npm/cli/issues/2226 npx also has a –yes flag you can use to bypass the prompt: npx –yes some-npm-package This is undocumented if you run npx –help, but the documentation for this flag is hidden in … Read more
npx create-react-app executes create-react-app binary, and create-react-app uses yarn to create your project (if yarn is installed). that’s why you can see yarn.lock and also why yarn-start works. Difference between npx create-react-app and yarn create react-app They both executes create-react-app binary. create-react-app is the one who decides whether it wants to create the project with … Read more
npx has a –yes flag you can use to bypass the prompt: npx –yes some-npm-package This is undocumented if you run npx –help, but the documentation for this flag is hidden in the command’s “description” on the NPM website. There is also a –no flag available if you need to reject the prompt instead.
I ran into this issue while working on a Vue project and I fixed it by installing the caniuse-lite package again. Just run npm i caniuse-lite in your terminal. Then spin up your app again after the installation.
On macOS (and likely Linux) it’s ~/.npm/_npx, you can drop it with: rm -rf ~/.npm/_npx On Windows it should be %LocalAppData%/npm-cache/_npx Either way, you can find npm’s cache by running npm config get cache and then finding an npx folder in there.
To fix the issue, run these commands in sequence npm init npm install create-react-app npx create-react-app myapp
For something like this encountered: ” You are running create-react-app 4.0.3, which is behind the latest release (5.0.0).” Solution was : > npx clear-npx-cache Then do: > npx create-react-app your-app