provide option to use pnpm for installation to avoid file replication across apps.

[laurencefass]

Is your proposal related to a problem?

using create-react-app uses for installation leads to lots of repeated node_module folders

angular cli provides option to use npm or pnpm for installation.

Describe the solution you'd like

give an option during create-react-app process to use pnpm if installed to avoid duplication of node_module files.

Describe alternatives you've considered

pnpm install on a github clone (havent tried it yet).

Additional context

none considered.

[heyimalex]

We could add a --use-pnpm flag like we have a --use-npm flag, but I wonder if you couldn't just use pnpx create-react-app <whatever>? They use create-react-app as their example command so I assume it works, but maybe not?

[laurencefass]

i tried that and it doesn't work apparently because CRA using npm. I reported it on pnpm queue and maintainer replied hence i opened this issue here. pnpm/pnpm#2107 (comment)

[heyimalex]

Then yeah, probably the best way forward would be to add an option like --use-pnpm and maybe to detect when we're being invoked via pnpx.

[laurencefass]

that would be very useful indeed as node_modules folders are consuming my hard drive! do you know when such a feature would be included into CRA if its accepted?

[TurboLion]

Related PR: #7791

[beenotung]

I made an alternative npm init react-ts-template script that can work with any package managers.
git npm

Instead of running a chain of scripts (create-react-app is doing this currently),
we can just copy the template files into the new folder (using degit or just fs.copyFile)