./node_modules/.bin/npx not found :(

[zkat]

➜ npx dist-upgrade --help
npx: installed 508 in 8.375s
/Users/zkat/.npm/_npx/67934/bin/dist-upgrade: line 3: ./node_modules/.bin/npx: No such file or directory

Unfortunately, there's no easy, surefire way to get the path to a dep's binary from a shell script. :\

[zacanger]

Thanks for pointing that out! I believe something like this would handle a most cases, but it's totally possible I'm missing something important. Do you have any thoughts on that?

#!/bin/sh

WHICH=`which npx`
NPMBIN=`npm bin`/npx
NPX=${WHICH:-$NPMBIN}

$NPX n latest && npm i -g npm@next

[zkat]

This still won't run the npx included with dist-upgrade.

The issue here is that your shell script can't figure out where it is -- it runs from pwd. Since the bash script is symlinked, it won't know where your original node_modules is.

Something like this will do the trick though:

#!/usr/bin/env node

const cp = require('child_process')
const path = require('path')

const NPX_BIN = path.join(__dirname, 'node_modules', '.bin', 'npx')
cp.spawn(`${NPX_BIN} n latest && npm i -g npm@next`, [], {
  stdio: 'inherit',
  shell: true
})

'cause __dirname works right.

[zacanger]

Thanks so much! I feel like a bit of a ditz for not realising that. Fixed in 0.2.0.