react-native-community / react-native-community/cli

Allow usage of pnpm

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Description

Allow the usage on pnpm instead of yarn or npm.

Perhaps a guide for doing the init manually would be helpful until such capability is introduced.

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First steps

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  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

Research direction

Start by locating the CLI's init flow and the code that selects yarn or npm. Trace how package-manager commands are chosen, then verify that pnpm can be used for initialization and that the manual-init guidance covers the remaining limitation.

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Assessment

Tech stack
react-native, typescript
Domain
cli, tooling
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
35/100

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