Do you tend to follow the rules that suppliers made?

2 points

7 days ago

Recently, I surfed the internet and found some strange codes in here(https://docs.antora.org/antora/latest/install-and-run-quickstart/#install-antora).

```sh node -e "fs.writeFileSync('package.json', '{}')" && npm i -D -E antora ```

It was weird to me. NPM introduce `npm init`(https://docs.npmjs.com/creating-a-package-json-file), not `node -e` things. So I committed(https://gitlab.com/antora/antora/-/merge_requests/1136) and wait for responses. But the maintainer rejected my commit and said:

> I'm aware of npm init and we don't recommend it for a good reason. It populates the package.json file with a lot of erroneous keys. It's much cleaner to create the file directly. Just because npm offers init doesn't make it "official".

> [fix `node -e` to `npm init` because it is official](https://gitlab.com/antora/antora/-/merge_requests/1136#note_3453027473)

I didn't understand his speech because the other NPM libraries follow the `npm init` rules(https://eslint.org/docs/latest/integrate/integration-tutorial) or create their own `init`s(https://www.prisma.io/docs).