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Add a flag to force create-react-app to use a specific package manager #2809
Description
Background:
create-react-app uses yarn as the default installation tool if it is found in the environment.
source code: line 195 in createReactApp.js
There're two special situation:
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When using
yarn, if the registryregistry.yarnpkg.comcannot be reached withdns.lookup, thenyarnwill switch to offline mode and try to use local cache. But I don't have any cached modules at all. Then it goes to a dead end!!
source code: line 616 in createReactApp.js -
Anyway for situation no.1, uninstall
yarncan solve the problem andnpmis used instead. But I need to usenpmandyarnboth and I can't uninstallyarn. It goes to a dead end again!!!
So, Is it possible to add a parameter for user to specify which installation tool(yarn/npm) to be used dynamically?
Thanks!
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[-]Is it possible to add a parameter for user to specify installation tool(yarn/npm) dynamically?[/-][+]Add a flag to force create-react-app to use npm[/+]gaearon commentedon Jan 8, 2018
I'd be happy to take a PR that lets you pass something like
create-react-app --pm=npmorcreate-react-app --pm=pnpmand it will use that manager.[-]Add a flag to force create-react-app to use npm[/-][+]Add a flag to force create-react-app to use a specific package manager[/+]gaearon commentedon Jan 14, 2018
Actually, just realized we already support
--use-npmflag. I think this is probably enough for now. It was added in #3409 and hasn't been released yet but we can close this.vjpr commentedon Feb 19, 2018
I still think we should allow
--pm=pnpm.Timer commentedon Feb 26, 2018
Feel free to submit a PR @vjpr, I'd be happy to review it.