preferred-pm

Returns the preferred package manager of a project

• 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 bun.lockb is present, Bun is preferred.
• If a node_modules is present, tries to detect which package manager installed it.

Installation

<pnpm|yarn|npm|bun> 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