npx as the shebang

[andreineculau]

I'm wondering if there was any thought of having npx as the shebang executor, so that a simple script's dependencies can be inlined in the shebang e.g.

#!/usr/bin/env npx -p ajv node -r ajv

let ajv = require('ajv');
// do more here

The above complains that it cannot find module 'ajv'.
I didn't dig deeper.

For really short scripts, where the user wouldn't care about the extra seconds in network/disk i/o, this would go a long way.

[naartjie]

I think that's a good idea, I was also thinking of something similar. Say you want to try out a library in the repl, but you're not sure you want to install it yet:

npx --package library-to-try node

const lib = require('library-to-try');

// do stuff with lib

As far as I understand it though, this is not how npx was designed, and right now this is not possible either.

[zkat]

@andreineculau that's because npx doesn't make javascript library APIs available. Only binaries. This works, though, for your specific use case:

#!/usr/bin/env npx node@6

console.log(process.versions)

[zkat]

See #180 :)

[zkat]

Closing as a dupe of #153.