Deno equivalent for `npm create ...`

[bartlomieju]

Currently there's no easy way to translate npm create (or yarn/pnpm create) calls to deno ... calls.

Consider the example:

npm create vite@latest

deno run -A npm:create-vite@latest

That's 24 chars vs 34 characters. And the user needs to now that npm create <package> is equal to deno run npm:create-<package>.

We need a better solution here and fast.

One obvious choice is to overload the deno init command to work like this:

deno init -A npm:vite@latest

There are a couple problems with it though:

• deno init doesn't accept permission flags right now - maybe creating a new project should apply default permissions like, read, write, env, and run?
• npm:vite might give a hint that the script is the vite package on npm and not create-vite - maybe it's not a problem?
• there's no feature parity for jsr: packages - maybe for jsr: we should look for jsr:create-<package> packages?

[raashidanwar]

@bartlomieju I would like to work on this feature.

[raashidanwar]

npm create is an alias of npm init I think we just need to implement one, however implementing both won't be a lot of effort I believe. Popularity of npm init is more so we should implement this only.

[bartlomieju]

@raashidanwar thanks, but the core team hasn't agreed yet on how exactly this will work.

[raashidanwar]

@raashidanwar thanks, but the core team hasn't agreed yet on how exactly this will work.

Sure. Let me know when they finalized the plan. Would love to implement this.

[bartlomieju]

Ref https://github.com/denoland/deno/issues/22383