Extension should recognize other package managers than npm

[wojtekmaj]

Existence of any other package manager (recognized by packageManager in package.json, presence of a certain lockfile) is simply ignored and the extension still tries to configure everything, particularly tasks.json, using npm. This leads to creating setups that may simply not work.

[alexweininger]

Which package managers would you like to see supported? You're correct in that we only support npm at the moment. Others we could support would be yarn or pnpm.

[wojtekmaj]

Yarn and pnpm is a really solid base, if the hype continues, bun could be also a good candidate. In terms of priority (against my personal preferences, in which I would prefer seeing Yarn 3 first), I think it is:

1. Yarn v1 (still hugely popular, plenty of projects using it)
2. Yarn v2/v3/v4 (natural path for people upgrading from Yarn v1) AND pnpm (quickly gaining popularity, although still relatively low) on equal level of priority
3. Bun (new in town, quickly gaining popularity, demand likely to increase)

[alexweininger]

Ok, thanks for the info.

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[alexweininger]

Yarn and pnpm is a really solid base, if the hype continues, bun could be also a good candidate. In terms of priority (against my personal preferences, in which I would prefer seeing Yarn 3 first), I think it is:

1. Yarn v1 (still hugely popular, plenty of projects using it)
2. Yarn v2/v3/v4 (natural path for people upgrading from Yarn v1) AND pnpm (quickly gaining popularity, although still relatively low) on equal level of priority
3. Bun (new in town, quickly gaining popularity, demand likely to increase)

Which one are you currently using? Yarn 3?

[wojtekmaj]

@alexweininger Yes, v3 at the moment.

Note that versions 2/3/4 will be all pretty much the same when implementing support - same commands, same lockfiles, same configuration files etc.