Running npm functs from js file

Question

I have quite an unusual question.

I don't mean make

script/test.js

, and then in package

"node scripts/test.js"

Instead, I want to somehow run function npm list from my test.js file

As in

let list = npm list

, and i have no idea how to do it, is it even possible? And if so, how? I would also like to save it as string or object. any can work

Answer 1

Yes, you can do this, here is the code:

var execSync = require('child_process').execSync;

var list = execSync('yarn list', { encoding: 'utf-8' });
console.log(list);