denorg/dpx

📦 CLI to run a Deno package without installing it (like npx for Deno)

📦 DPX

dpx is like npx for Deno, easily run a Deno CLI package.

Install DPX globally using:

deno install --allow-run --allow-net -n dpx https://deno.land/x/dpx/cli.ts

Then, the package is available to run:

dpx <packageName> <flags> <arguments>

Under the hood, the CLI finds the file to run (cli.ts or mod.ts) from the Deno registry and runs it.

💡 Examples

If you want to run the package online (which tells you whether you are online), you can run:

dpx online --allow-net # You are online

Similarly, if you want to check whether a website is up, you can use the up package:

dpx up --allow-net https://google.com  # https://google.com is up

Required permissions:

1. --allow-net
2. --allow-run

⭐ API

You can use this package by importing it:

import { dpx } from "https://deno.land/x/dpx/mod.ts";

const result = dpx("packageName", ["--flags"], ["args"]);

Alternatively, you can use it directly from the CLI by using deno run:

deno run --allow-read --allow-run https://deno.land/x/dpx/cli.ts <flags> <packageName> <arguments>

👩‍💻 Development

Run tests:

deno test --allow-read

📄 License

MIT © Denorg

_{A project by Denorg, the world's first Deno-focused community
organization and consulting company. Work with us →}

dpx's Issues

Question: Do you plan to publish this module also on https://nest.land/ ?

https://nest.land/

Question / Potential Feature Request: Does it make sense to have something like that for pm2 features?

These things are still somehow abstract for me - so sorry if it is a not so valuable question / remark.

What I'm looking for is being able to write something like
pm2 start https://deno.land/x/.../app.ts --interpreter="deno" --interpreter-args="run --allow-net"

instead of cloning things onto my server and then writing something like
pm2 start app.ts --interpreter="deno" --interpreter-args="run --allow-net"

From my perspective this seems similar like dpx - and brings in the "process manager" features...

I also raised this via the following issue but this seemed to be the wrong place:
denoland/deno#7137

Question: Do you plan to support npm

https://twitter.com/deno_land/status/1580356550966722560

https://deno.land/[email protected]/node (Interoperating with Node and NPM)

deno run -A --unstable npm:create-vite-extra 

feat: To Support https://nest.land/

I would suggest to support https://nest.land packages, and maybe other repositories, and the default is deno.land

Update README template

We have a new, updated README template in https://github.com/denorg/starter that has guides about DPX, a Deno footer, and some new sections. Please update this project's README to match the new template. As an example, I've updated this one: https://github.com/denorg/is-docker.

add dpx inside Trex

I am making a dependency manager for deno based on import_map, it also has the functionality to install tools like commands or velociraptor

is there a problem with adding dpx to the list of tools that can be installed?

this is my tool Trex

To support -A (all permissions) -r (--reload) and all deno args.

Hi,
Currently, --allow-net works fine, but -A does not work (instead of --allow-net --allow-env --allow-read --allow-write) ...
Also --reload works fine while -r does not.