npex
Find npm package executable in node_modules/.bin recursively, and execute the first occurrence found.
Descriptions
This is similar to npx with following differences:
-
npex tries to find executable in node_modules/.bin recursively until the first occurrence found (similar to the Node.js module resolution mechanism). E.g., npex jest
will search following paths:
- ~/my/git/engineforce/npex/node_modules/.bin/jest
- ~/my/git/engineforce/node_modules/.bin/jest
- ~/my/git/node_modules/.bin/jest
- ~/my/node_modules/.bin/jest
- ~/node_modules/.bin/jest
- (globally installed jest)
-
npex will not install anything if the executable is not found.
This extremely useful for monorepo, where your executables are hoisted to the monorepo root, but you want to execute them from sub-repos' location.
Install with npm
npm install -g npex
Usages
npex [--verbose] <command> [<args>...]
Examples
npex lerna ls
npex --verbose lerna ls
npex tsc
npex tsc --listFiles
npex jest
npex jest --help
npex jest --watch
History
- 1.0.5 - Supports commands with user input such as
jest --watch