npmw
Motivation
If you're like me and are not a big fan of having global modules installed on your system as a requirement to get up and running with any given project, then you might find this module handy.
This is nothing more than a wrapper (called npmw
) installed on your project root. All it does is to spawn any given command line tool with the node_modules/.bin
directory as part of the $PATH
.
For example, if your project requires gulp
, or grunt
to be installed globally (-g
), you can drop that requirement, and have them as simple devDependencies
on your package.json
and run them as follows:
./npmw gulp myTask
./npmw grunt myTask
Another example is ionic
, which also requires cordova
as a global module. Using npmw
you can simply:
./npmw ionic serve
./npmw ionic platform list
- …
And your project is pretty munch self-contained! Win!
npm exec
?
What about Well, as of the time of this write up, npm exec
does not currently support passing arguments. You should just use that once it does.
Installation
npm install npmw --save-dev
License
This is licensed under the feel-free-to-do-whatever-you-want-to-do license – http://unlicense.org