Library for package managers independent command execution

[flying-sheep]

So in order to run a command from a package installed into the workspace, there’s yarn run <cmd>, npx --no <cmd>, and probably others.

Since yarn 2 doesn’t (by default) install things into node_modules, we now lack a cross-package-manager way to run a locally installed command (before yarn 2, that was <workspace-path>/node_modules/.bin/<cmd>)

Is there a library that handles this? I.e. figures out if the current workspace is managed by yarn 2 and uses yarn run then, and the equivalent other commands for other package managers?

[arcanis]

You can just call <bin>, since all package managers add it into the PATH.

[flying-sheep]

Nonono, what makes you think that?

They do that precisely when you use their package manager specific run mechanism, otherwise not. Two example use cases where that’s not the case:

• A tool could have been launched simply via absolute/path/to/tool
• When a tool wants control over which workspace to execute something in, it can’t use $PATH