Programmatic Npm Dependency Installation With GetNpmClient

In this article, we review how Father, an NPM package development tool is installs npm dependencies programmatically.


  
  
  How did I find this code snippet?

I wrote an article about Father and in its README.md, I found that it supports micro generators that adds commonly used engineering capabilities to projects, such as setting up Jest for testing. This is similar to the CLI tool I am building, to generate code for authentication or S3 upload in Next.js.
I started searching for the micro generators code and found a folder named commands/generators.


  
  
  Common pattern in the genera...