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treeno
treeno

Reputation: 2600

How to create a npm init script

according to the npm-docs the npm init command can be used in conjunction with an init-script that would preconfigure a new package:

npm init <package>

where <package> refers to a package called create-<package>. I would like to create such a create-<package>-thing, but npm is for some reason trying to execute my create-script with Microsoft JScript instead of node 🤔.

I have the following test-structure:

client-package is the package that I want to initialize using npm init my-app.

create-my-app is the package that is supposed to contain the create-script. I've linked create-my-app to client-package using npm link create-my-app inside of client-package

When I call npm init my-app in client-package npm locates the index.js in create-my-app and tries to execute it. But it does not execute it with node, instead it tries to execute it as a windows JScript... whatever that is... How can I tell npm that this is supposed to run with node?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1210

Answers (1)

Ivan
Ivan

Reputation: 24

If your script is intended to be executed by Node you should indicate it with the proper shebang

#!/usr/bin/env node

With that line, we are executing with a Node interpreter, using the env program search path to find it.

Upvotes: 1

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