npx'ing a scoped package does not work

[coderbyheart]

% npx @coderbyheart/xkcd-password  
npx: installed 19 in 2.583s
command not found: xkcd-password
npx @coderbyheart/xkcd-password  4.93s user 0.35s system 189% cpu 2.794 total

The sourcecode for the package is here: https://github.com/coderbyheart/xkcd-password

The package is published as a scoped package at https://www.npmjs.com/package/@coderbyheart/xkcd-password

It seems npx ignores the scope when executing it.

Running npx from within the package source folder works:

~/git/xkcd-password (git)-[master] % npx @coderbyheart/xkcd-password                                                                                       :(
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[zkat]

@coderbyheart this is intentional: npx is meant to execute binaries, not execute arbitrary packages' main.

Just add "bin": "./index.js" and I think that'll work just fine 👍

[coderbyheart]

Duh, my bad! Works now as expected. Thanks!

[hon2a]

@coderbyheart Could you, please, go into detail of how this now works as expected? I ran into the very same problem just now and adding bin did not solve my problem. Then I tried running npx @coderbyheart/xkcd-password and got the same error (command not found).

[coderbyheart]

Hm. Is your setup up to date? It works for me:

m@nanshe ~ % npx @coderbyheart/xkcd-password
npx: installed 19 in 1.686s
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[hon2a]

@coderbyheart Thanks for the info, must be my npm version then.

[coderbyheart]

Actually this could fix it for you: https://github.com/coderbyheart/xkcd-password/commit/f68e88123e5168e3b59e4d6ba34157399d89ad93

[hon2a]

@coderbyheart Or I might not have flagged my executable properly at all, we'll never know :) Thanks for the tip!