I'm Done Typing npm

I've typed npm for the last time.

As JavaScript developers, we have four package managers to choose from. In my personal, work, and open source projects, I use all of them. This is a problem because using the wrong command wastes time and causes frustration.

Below is a zsh function I've used to avoid the hassle of switching between package managers—like typing npm start when I meant bun start or npm i when I meant yarn.

function _package_manager() {
    if [[ -f bun.lockb ]]; then
        command bun "$@"
    elif [[ -f pnpm-lock.yaml ]]; then
        command pnpm "$@"
    elif [[ -f yarn.lock ]]; then
        command yarn "$@"
    elif [[ -f package-lock.json ]]; then
        command npm "$@"
    else
        command pnpm "$@"
    fi
}

alias p='_package_manager'
alias pi='_package_manager install'
alias pa='_package_manager add'
alias pad='_package_manager add -D'
alias prm='_package_manager remove'
alias pb='_package_manager build'