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Have you tried npx? It comes with Node. There's also npm run, but perhaps I'm missing something about how they differ

• gavinray 3y ago
  npx doesn't run project-installed packages, it uses global downloads The "npm run" is a command for running defined scripts in your package.json The equivalent of "npm run" in yarn is just "yarn", for example: "yarn start"/"yarn dev". What "yarn run" does is allow you to run binaries installed from "dependencies"/"devDependencies". Say that I run the following: yarn install --dev nodemon ts-node typescript I can then run yarn run tsc --init / yarn run nodemon / yarn run ts-node And it will invoke the local "./node_modules" package binaries. This is useful when you want to ensure version-locked, per-project binaries.
  • hoten 3y ago
    `npx <package>` does run project installed binaries, if they exist (node_modules/.bin/<package>). In that scenario it's equivalent to `yarn <package>`. Otherwise yes it falls back to a global package, and a prompt to install if missing.
  • addicted 3y ago
    npx has supported local packages for quite some time at this point.