preferred-pm

Detects what package manager was used for installation

Usage no npm install needed!

<script type="module">
  import preferredPm from 'https://cdn.skypack.dev/preferred-pm';
</script>

README

preferred-pm

Returns the preferred package manager of a project

npm version

  • Inside a Yarn workspace, Yarn is preferred.
  • Inside a pnpm workspace, pnpm is preferred.
  • If a package-lock.json is present, npm is preferred.
  • If a yarn.lock is present, Yarn is preferred.
  • If a pnpm-lock.yaml is present, pnpm is preferred.
  • If a node_modules is present, tries to detect which package manager installed it.

Installation

<pnpm|yarn|npm> add preferred-pm

Usage

'use strict'
const preferredPM = require('preferred-pm')

preferredPM(process.cwd())
    .then(pm => console.log(pm))
//> {name: "npm", version: ">=5"}

Related

  • which-pm - Detects what package manager was used for installation
  • which-pm-runs - Detects what package manager executes the process

License

MIT © Zoltan Kochan