ERROR with pnpm dlx command

[slozano54]

Hi !
Thanks for your job.
I actually have difficulty to run the command pnpm dlx create-sveltex
I get an error String.prototype.split called on null or undefined as yo can see on the screenshot.

[ildella]

Same with npx and yarn dlx

$ npx      create-sveltex
Need to install the following packages:
create-sveltex@0.1.1
Ok to proceed? (y) 

npm warn deprecated inflight@1.0.6: This module is not supported, and leaks memory. Do not use it. Check out lru-cache if you want a good and tested way to coalesce async requests by a key value, which is much more comprehensive and powerful.
npm warn deprecated rimraf@3.0.2: Rimraf versions prior to v4 are no longer supported
npm warn deprecated glob@7.2.3: Glob versions prior to v9 are no longer supported
[ERROR] String.prototype.split called on null or undefined

[nvlang]

Thanks for the reports! I'll try to further diagnose the issue and resolve it this weekend.

[nvlang]

This issue seems to be a consequence of plopjs/plop#445. As a temporary workaround, as suggested in that issue's comments, I'm hard-coding the 9.3.5 version of inquirer in package.json, which should fix the issue for now. If and when Plop and/or Inquirer fix the root cause, this temporary fix here should be reverted and a newer minimum version of plop should be required in the package.json file.

Thanks again for your reports!

[nvlang]

I tested this now and it seems the workaround only works with npx. My guess would be that pnpm dlx and bunx don't enforce the inquirer version lock properly. I haven't tested it with yarn dlx. I'll update the documentation to reflect this.

[slozano54]

Thanks for your answer.

In fact, i still have the problem with pnpm.

Actually I can test your project by addind to an existing svelte project and it's great :)

[nvlang]

@slozano54 Thanks for the kind words! I actually just published another update that seems to fix the issue for pnpm dlx and bunx as well (dfb6a10). In my case I had to run pnpm dlx create-sveltex@0.1.3 or bunx create-sveltex@0.1.3 specifically to ensure the right version is run, but for users who don't have an outdated version cached this doesn't seem to be necessary.

[slozano54]

@nvlang Everything works correctly with the command pnpm dlx create-sveltex@0.1.3. I just tried without clearing the cache. Thanks a lot.