Decide whether or not to install and deps and if yes choose from package managers

[kareemmahlees]

Goals

1. Ask the user whether or not he wants to install the deps
2. If yes, he would then be prompted to choose between different package managers
3. Perhaps add an additional option at the end of the package managers list that says "Something Else" if the user wants to use for example bun.

Non-Goals

Background

Currently, the workaround here is to delete the node_modules folder and then reinstall the deps with another package manager.
This is of course a resource-consuming method.

Proposal

The list of package managers should only be prompted if the user has chosen to install the deps.
Upon choosing, the install command of the corresponding package manager should be run.

I would be happy to contribute in making this possible 🙂

[icyJoseph]

Maybe I am wrong, but if you run either of:

npx create-next-app@latest
# or
yarn create next-app
# or
pnpm create next-app
# or
bunx create-next-app

Then, it'll use the package manager you ran the command with, right?

[kareemmahlees]

@icyJoseph That's correct, but it is not documented that the command is runnable with other package managers, so we can fix that!

[icyJoseph]

• https://www.npmjs.com/package/create-next-app

[kareemmahlees]

@icyJoseph is it on the website docs also ?

[icyJoseph]

Yes it is:

• https://nextjs.org/docs/app/api-reference/create-next-app