pinst

pinst lets you have the preinstall and postinstall hooks running only in dev 🍺

Important if your project is using npm or pnpm, you can achieve the desired effect by setting a prepare hook instead. pinst is mainly useful for Yarn 2+ since it doesn't support prepare hook. See https://yarnpkg.com/advanced/lifecycle-scripts

Usage

// package.json
{
  "scripts": {
    "preinstall": "<some dev only command>",
    "postinstall": "<some dev only command>",
    "prepack": "pinst --disable",
    "postpack": "pinst --enable"
  }
}

On prepack, preinstall and postinstall will be renamed to _preinstall and _postinstall (disabled)

On postpack, it will be renamed back to preinstall and postinstall (enabled)

CLI

pinst accepts the following flags:

--enable, -e   Enable preinstall & postinstall hook
--disable, -d  Disable preinstall & postinstall hook
--silent, -s

Tips

By inverting commands, you can also use pinst to enable preinstall or postinstall for your users only and not yourself.

pinst also supports install alias.

License

MIT - Typicode 🌵