--skip-install option in create-next-app

Describe the feature you’d like to request

A --skip-install option in create-next-app, like in react-native, to skip installing dependencies would be really great. It allows using other package managers like pnpm

Describe the solution you’d like

do not install dependencies automatically when the --skip-install option is set. But the dependencies should be listed in package.json, so user could manually install the dependencies using other package managers like pnpm

Describe alternatives you’ve considered

An option to use pnpm(--use-pnpm). pnpm has gained significant popularity and would be a good option to add.

[Pika-Pool]

When using the default templates from this folder, the dependency list in package.json is populated using the install command(npm install or yarn install). When the --skip-install option is enabled, we can no longer use this method. But we still need to list the dependencies, with their versions in the package.json file, so the user can install them using their favorite package manager.

So what would be a good method to get the respective versions? Should we just mark it as latest or *? Or I have listed some other ways I can think of in my previous comment

[balazsorban44]

Adding a --skip-install flag sounds reasonable. I’m not 100% what would go into the --use-pnpm flag, let’s start with the first one.

Here are the appropriate files:

(look for await install) https://github.com/vercel/next.js/blob/canary/packages/create-next-app/create-app.ts

https://github.com/vercel/next.js/blob/canary/packages/create-next-app/index.ts