NPMJS Alternative (WIP)

Nacho Aldama

Last update: Dec 31, 2022

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Learning resource snpm

Overview

SNPM (WIP)

SNPM is an "alternative" for NPM, but it's not meant to replace NPM/Yarn/PNPM

DISCLAIMER 🚧

This project was made to learn more about Package Managers, for now you should only use it to play with it.

CLI

The SNPM CLI is used to install packages from the package.json of a project.

Its advantages are that it is faster than NPM and saves more space.

Instalation

npm i @snpm-io/cli -g

Commands

snpm install Installs packages from package.json
snpm benchmark Tests SNPM against NPM and PNPM
snpm clear Remove .snpm-cache folder

Todo

Make it work in some JS Frameworks (Follow progress here)
Fix monorepos integration (WIP, degradated performance in some repos)

Why is it faster?

SNPM uses the same installation system as PNPM, fetch dependency, download dependency. Without waiting for the rest of the dependencies.

To resolve the dependencies, a dependency tree is generated as in NPM version 2, each dependency (or subdependency) has its own node_modules.

Now you are probably wondering how that makes the space more efficient than in NPM.

Each dependency is a symbolic link to a common store inside .snpm-cache, so all your projects use shared dependencies.

It works?

Short answer, probably no, but in some cases it works. (For now)

I've selected some quickstart templates to test SNPM, and I'm working on make it work in all of them.

If you want to test a template, you can use Vite, I've already tested it and it should work.

Full list

Comments

Can't install `fastify-zod`
Provide installed version

[Ultra] v0.7.3 (47.05ms)

Current platform

Windows

Describe the Bug

I tried running the following command

ultra install fastify-zod

And it did not install the fastify-zod package. Whereas npm successfully did it.

This is the error ultra gave to me (after 26 seconds)

This is what NPM shows after installation (after 5 seconds)

Expected Behavior

Expected that fastify-zod gets installed automatically

Template command (if applicable)

ultra install fastify-zod

To Reproduce

Run ultra install fastify-zod in a blank project
bug Windows
opened by max-programming 8

Errors while installing T3 packages

Provide installed version

[Ultra] v0.7.6

Provide Node.js version

16.17.1

Current platform

Windows

Describe the Bug

I got these weird error logs while trying to install with ultra i after running ultra create t3-app

ℹ Using https://registry.npmjs.org/ as registry...
⚡ Installed local packages in 0.15 ms!
✖ Error while installing globals@^13.15.0 from cache - Error reading package.json from C:\Users\Admin\.ultra-cache\globals\13.17.0\package.json - ENOENT: no such file or directory, open 'C:\Users\Admin\.ultra-cache\globals\13.17.0\package.json'
✖ Error extracting C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\ultra_tmp\ignore-b50a0b7a023c81aa1a217fb5dca7ff67.tgz to C:\Users\Admin\.ultra-cache\ignore\5.2.0: TAR_BAD_ARCHIVE: Unrecognized archive format
✖ Error while installing @eslint/eslintrc@^1.3.0 from cache - Error reading package.json from C:\Users\Admin\.ultra-cache\ignore\5.2.0\package.json - ENOENT: no such file or directory, open 'C:\Users\Admin\.ultra-cache\ignore\5.2.0\package.json'
✖ Error extracting C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\ultra_tmp\path-exists-7c15fc7e9a3b16862093ccba6ad29a03.tgz to C:\Users\Admin\.ultra-cache\path-exists\4.0.0: TAR_BAD_ARCHIVE: Unrecognized archive format
✖ Error while installing find-up@^5.0.0 from cache - Error reading package.json from C:\Users\Admin\.ultra-cache\path-exists\4.0.0\package.json - ENOENT: no such file or directory, open 'C:\Users\Admin\.ultra-cache\path-exists\4.0.0\package.json'
✖ Error while installing globals@^13.15.0 from cache - Error reading package.json from C:\Users\Admin\.ultra-cache\globals\13.17.0\package.json - ENOENT: no such file or directory, open 'C:\Users\Admin\.ultra-cache\globals\13.17.0\package.json'
✖ Error extracting C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\ultra_tmp\read-cache-7a65d6fcfaf1ca051c995b784c6eb1f7.tgz to C:\Users\Admin\.ultra-cache\read-cache\1.0.0: TAR_BAD_ARCHIVE: Unrecognized archive format
✖ Error while installing postcss-import@^14.1.0 from cache - Error reading package.json from C:\Users\Admin\.ultra-cache\read-cache\1.0.0\package.json - ENOENT: no such file or directory, open 'C:\Users\Admin\.ultra-cache\read-cache\1.0.0\package.json'
✖ Error while installing ignore@^5.2.0 from cache - Error reading package.json from C:\Users\Admin\.ultra-cache\ignore\5.2.0\package.json - ENOENT: no such file or directory, open 'C:\Users\Admin\.ultra-cache\ignore\5.2.0\package.json'
✖ Error while installing ignore@^5.2.0 from cache - Error reading package.json from C:\Users\Admin\.ultra-cache\ignore\5.2.0\package.json - ENOENT: no such file or directory, open 'C:\Users\Admin\.ultra-cache\ignore\5.2.0\package.json'
✖ Error extracting C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\ultra_tmp\levn-5f3062071eebdde1684e0090ae90e913.tgz to C:\Users\Admin\.ultra-cache\levn\0.4.1: TAR_BAD_ARCHIVE: Unrecognized archive format
✖ Error while installing [email protected] from cache - Error reading package.json from C:\Users\Admin\.ultra-cache\levn\0.4.1\package.json - ENOENT: no such file or directory, open 'C:\Users\Admin\.ultra-cache\levn\0.4.1\package.json'
✖ Error while installing ignore@^5.2.0 from cache - Error reading package.json from C:\Users\Admin\.ultra-cache\ignore\5.2.0\package.json - ENOENT: no such file or directory, open 'C:\Users\Admin\.ultra-cache\ignore\5.2.0\package.json'
✖ Error extracting C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\ultra_tmp\regexpp-850ab2db51deef81dcd32b6851513535.tgz to C:\Users\Admin\.ultra-cache\regexpp\3.2.0: TAR_BAD_ARCHIVE: Unrecognized archive format
✖ [ERR] @typescript-eslint/eslint-plugin@^5.33.0 - Error reading package.json from C:\Users\Admin\.ultra-cache\regexpp\3.2.0\package.json - ENOENT: no such file or directory, open 'C:\Users\Admin\.ultra-cache\regexpp\3.2.0\package.json'
✖ Error while installing globals@^13.15.0 from cache - Error reading package.json from C:\Users\Admin\.ultra-cache\globals\13.17.0\package.json - ENOENT: no such file or directory, open 'C:\Users\Admin\.ultra-cache\globals\13.17.0\package.json'
✖ Error while installing ignore@^5.2.0 from cache - Error reading package.json from C:\Users\Admin\.ultra-cache\ignore\5.2.0\package.json - ENOENT: no such file or directory, open 'C:\Users\Admin\.ultra-cache\ignore\5.2.0\package.json'
✖ Error while installing levn@^0.4.1 from cache - Error reading package.json from C:\Users\Admin\.ultra-cache\levn\0.4.1\package.json - ENOENT: no such file or directory, open 'C:\Users\Admin\.ultra-cache\levn\0.4.1\package.json'
✖ Error extracting C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\ultra_tmp\lodash.merge-879fb9805f7a2dc7d3dd9b949be2071a.tgz to C:\Users\Admin\.ultra-cache\lodash.merge\4.6.2: TAR_BAD_ARCHIVE: Unrecognized archive format
✖ Error while installing [email protected] from cache - Error reading package.json from C:\Users\Admin\.ultra-cache\lodash.merge\4.6.2\package.json - ENOENT: no such file or directory, open 'C:\Users\Admin\.ultra-cache\lodash.merge\4.6.2\package.json'
⚡ Installed packages in 3 min!
⚡ 1 Post Install scripts completed in 62.28 ms!
⚡ 121 packages verified
⚡ Done in 3 min!

Expected Behavior

It should install those packages without any errors

Template command (if applicable)

👇

To Reproduce

Run ultra create t3-app
Say no to install packages
Install the packages manually with ultra i

bug

opened by max-programming 7

Create T3/Next App does not work on Windows

Provide installed version

[Ultra] v0.7.5 (61.98ms)

Current platform

Windows

Describe the Bug

When I run ultra create t3-app, it fails

Expected Behavior

It should generate a T3 Stack app just like npx creat-t3-app or yarn create t3-app

Template command (if applicable)

ultra create t3-app

To Reproduce

ultra create t3-app
bug

opened by max-programming 6

Fixed 'remove' command exception

Hi! I found a bug in the stable version of Ultra, when using "ultra remove package-name" it throws an exception if not found in peerDependencies.

[Ultra] v0.7.0 (83.54ms)
file:///C:/Users/doiska/Documents/Tools/nvm/v16.16.0/node_modules/ultra-pkg/build/commands/remove.js:15
        delete pkg.peerDependencies[arg];
                                    ^

TypeError: Cannot convert undefined or null to object
    at remove (file:///C:/Users/doiska/Documents/Tools/nvm/v16.16.0/node_modules/ultra-pkg/build/commands/remove.js:15:37)
    at commands (file:///C:/Users/doiska/Documents/Tools/nvm/v16.16.0/node_modules/ultra-pkg/build/commands/index.js:107:16)

opened by doiska 3

Support to private packages
Ultra gives an 404 error when trying to install a private github package, seems that .npmrc file is ignored by ultra. On yarn and npm works fine.

Versions

Ultra: 0.7.0

Node: v16.15.0

enhancement
opened by luishrodg 3
Compare installed versions of packages.
Looks like this problem is related to duplicated dependencies with different versions.

[ ] Compare installed versions and skip if the package is suitable.

[ ] Cache manifests to speed up fetching.

Originally posted by @nachoaldamav in https://github.com/nachoaldamav/fnpm/issues/38#issuecomment-1245398916
enhancement
opened by nachoaldamav 3

Error: EXDEV: cross-device link not permitted,

Provide installed version

[Ultra] v0.7.0

Current platform

Windows, WSL (Ubuntu 22.04 LTS)

Describe the Bug

My old project is up and running on an other hard disk partition

Run ultra clear to clean up

✔ Cleared cache!
✔ Cleared node_modules!
✔ Cleared all packages!

Run ultra install

[Ultra] v0.7.0 (448.52ms)
ℹ Using https://registry.npmjs.org/ as registry...
⚡ Installed local packages in 0.20 ms!
✖ Error: EXDEV: cross-device link not permitted, link '/root/.ultra-cache/@nestjs/config/2.2.0/.ultra' -> '/mnt/e/project/api/node_modules/@nestjs/config/.ultra' (file: /root/.ultra-cache/@nestjs/config/2.2.0/.ultra, target: /mnt/e/project/api/node_modules/@nestjs/config/.ultra)
✖ Error: EXDEV: cross-device link not permitted, link '/root/.ultra-cache/@nestjs/config/2.2.0/.vscode/settings.json' -> '/mnt/e/project/api/node_modules/@nestjs/config/.vscode/settings.json' (file: /root/.ultra-cache/@nestjs/config/2.2.0/.vscode/settings.json, target: /mnt/e/project/api/node_modules/@nestjs/config/.vscode/settings.json)
✖ Error: EXDEV: cross-device link not permitted, link '/root/.ultra-cache/@nestjs/config/2.2.0/LICENSE' -> '/mnt/e/project/api/node_modules/@nestjs/config/LICENSE' (file: /root/.ultra-cache/@nestjs/config/2.2.0/LICENSE, target: /mnt/e/project/api/node_modules/@nestjs/config/LICENSE)
✖ Error: EXDEV: cross-device link not permitted, link '/root/.ultra-cache/@nestjs/config/2.2.0/README.md' -> '/mnt/e/project/api/node_modules/@nestjs/config/README.md' (file: /root/.ultra-cache/@nestjs/config/2.2.0/README.md, target: /mnt/e/project/api/node_modules/@nestjs/config/README.md)