Running node CLI module locally

Question

I am having an node module which is a CLI script. The CLI uses the process.cwd() to get the current directory from which the cli script is invoked( that is important). This works fine when I install the CLI module globally (https://www.npmjs.com/package/reduxboilergen)

npm i -g <module>

But when I install it locally npm i -S <module> Then 1) The script is not invoked 2) I added a script in package.json and then if I run npm run "script_name", it is invoked but it always takes the directory from where the npm script is invoked as the process.cwd(). So if the folder structure is root - src Then even if I run it inside src directory its picking up root as cwd() as the package.json is in root.

The node_module npm-run ( https://github.com/timoxley/npm-run) solves this problem but is there any other way that you experts can think of so that I dont have to add this dependency?

Please edit your post. It's a bit confusing what you really want. Write some commands that work and not work. — rtn, Mar 14 '18 at 08:49
Sorry for not being clear, basically it is kind of a duplicate(which I found now of) https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9679932/how-to-use-package-installed-locally-in-node-modules — Sourav Chatterjee, Mar 14 '18 at 23:56

score -1 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 14 '18 at 23:57

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The answer would be npx as of npm 5.2.0

answered Mar 14 '18 at 23:57

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