Install and use locally in pre-commit

[troywweber7]

I'm struggling to use zx when installed locally. It seems I have to install it globally if I want to run it directly with ./pre-commit.mjs. Or if I add node_modules/.bin to the path, then it works when I'm at the project root. Under .git/hooks, however, that path change won't stick unless it was an absolute path. What is the best approach to this situation?

[troywweber7]

This is one viable solution, I think. I guess I want to check that this is what the library author's would recommend in my situation as well. If so, I'm satisfied with that.

[troywweber7]

One approach I actually ended up using was to use node in the shebang instead of zx. Of course this means giving up top level await because node doesn't yet have the ability to interpret an extensionless file as mjs no matter what you try. It also means you have to import things in a slightly odd manner, but it is doable. At some point I will post the pre-commit file I landed on in case it helps anyone else.

[antongolub]

How about npx? npm caches packages, re-runs are usually faster.

npx zx ./script.mjs