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awesome-npx
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🌟 packages and resources that work really well with https://github.com/zkat/npx 🕶
🌟 packages and resources that work really well with https://github.com/zkat/npx 🕶
npx
lets you execute npm package binaries without installing them. npx
is the last thing you need to globally install:
> npm i -g npx
(this command also updates npx)
Now you can execute tools from npm packages without having to install them globally:
> npx cowsay wow
npx: installed 1 in 1.413s
_____
< wow >
-----
\ ^__^
\ (oo)\_______
(__)\ )\/\
||----w |
|| ||
you can even use npx
to view this list of awesome-npx
tools:
> npx awesome-npx
npx cowsay <text>
npx figlet-cli <text>
npx shx ls
npx shx rm -rf /tmp
Please read the CONTRIBUTING.md and CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md docs. Everything in this repo is licensed CC0-1.0 unless otherwise noted. Thank you for being awesome!
FAQs
🌟 packages and resources that work really well with https://github.com/zkat/npx 🕶
We found that awesome-npx demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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