justinanastos/pnpm-bin

Utility to enable passing CLI flags to node scripts in a pnpm project

pnpm-bin

Installation

I suggest you globally install this package so it'll be available everywhere for you.

pnpm add --global justinanastos/pnpm-bin

Purpose

This library enables you to easily run a pnpm installed binary while applying arguments to node.

For example, if you want to run jest with the node inspector, usually you'd do something like this:

node --inspect $(npm bin)/jest --runInBand

With pnpm, you can't do this beacuse the files in $(npm bin) are shell scripts. This script will parse those shell scripts and run node for you

Usage

pnpm-bin [...nodeArguments] [binaryName] [...binaryArguments]

• nodeArguments optional list of arguments to pass to node
• binaryName represents the binary name for the script you want to run
• binaryArguments optional list of arguments to pass to your binary

Note that nodeArguments and binaryArguments are optional.

This command:

pnpm-bin --inspect jest --watch --runInBand

Will translate into this:

node --inspect [bin to jest] --watch --runInBand