importing 3rd party libs

[mblarsen]

I'm using zx mainly like this:

#!/usr/bin/env zx

const config = YAML.parse((await $`cat config.yaml`).toString())
...

With zx installed globally. I chmod +x and run the script ./myscript without ext.

It is not clear to me how I'm supposed to use 3rd party libs. E.g. want to make use of keyblade.

#!/usr/bin/env zx

import {keyblade} from 'keyblade'

const config = keyblad(YAML.parse((await $`cat config.yaml`).toString()))
...

However, this causes an import error

Error [ERR_MODULE_NOT_FOUND]: Cannot find package 'keyblade' imported from [CUT] myscript.mjs

keyblade is installed globally as well.

Is what I'm trying to do not possible? Do I have to use the importing from other scripts approach to achieve this?

[antonmedv]

To import globally installed packages check your NODE_PARH env var.

[craftogrammer]

I have the same use case, I don't know how to do it so I forked the project, and added my dependencies on my fork, and it's working fine, for time being I found it easier.

After some time, I went ahead, and imported the $ function from zx, and used pkg to convert the script into binary so on other user's PC, they don't even have to install node or npm packages.

I find the zx implementation of running shell commands easier than the other node packages because I can write the whole shell command as it is, and I don't have to escape anything. It feels more natural.

Just sharing my experience here.

[antongolub]

A lot has changed, here's the actual status:

• CLI --install flag fetches deps before the script running.
  https://google.github.io/zx/cli#install
  

  zx/test/deps.test.js

  Line 118 in e1b66cb

  test('import with version', async () => {

• CLI --prefer-local accepts node_modules directory to load the deps from.
  https://google.github.io/zx/cli#prefer-local-l