The pnpm
package manager offers three commands that are alternatives for npm
's npx
command. These are pnpm create
, pnpx
and pnpm dlx
. All three seem to do the same thing. But what are the differences between them? Which one should be preferred for which tasks? Or is there a universal best?
CodePudding user response:
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 same as running pnpm dlx create-react-app my-app
.
There is also pnpm exec
, which doesn't download a package just runs a package that is already in node_modules/.bin