workspace

`npm init`

Creates a new package.json interactively, or when given an initializer (e.g. `npm init vite@latest`) delegates to `npm exec create-<initializer>`. `-y` accepts all defaults.

Syntax

npm init [<initializer>] | npm init -y

Common flags

Flag	Purpose
--yes (-y)	Skip prompts and generate a default package.json
--scope <@scope>	Create a scoped package
--workspace <path> (-w)	Create a new workspace under the given path
-w <path> -y	Common combo to scaffold a workspace non-interactively

Examples

npm init -y

Create a default package.json with no prompts

npm init vite@latest my-app

Delegate to create-vite for scaffolding

npm init -w packages/utils -y

Create a new workspace at packages/utils

Gotcha

`npm init ` is sugar for `npm exec create-` — it will install and run the create-* package from the registry. Use `npm init @scope/name` for a scoped initializer such as `@vue/create`.

Related commands

npm workspaces

A set of flags — not a standalone command — that let npm operate against one, several, or every workspace declared in the root package.json's `workspaces` array. Introduced in npm 7 and refined through npm 10.

npm exec (npx)

Runs a package's binary from a local install, the cache, or on-the-fly from the registry without a global install. `npx` is the shell-friendly shim; both are equivalent in npm 10+.

npm install

Installs a package (and its dependencies), adding it to package.json and refreshing package-lock.json. Without arguments, installs everything already declared in the current project's package.json.

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