Replacements for detect-package-manager

package-manager-detector

package-manager-detector is a lightweight alternative for detecting the package manager being used in a project.

Key differences

• Zero subdependencies compared to 16 in detect-package-manager
• ESM-only, while detect-package-manager is primarily CJS (with ESM support)
• Smaller bundle size due to the lack of dependencies

Migration example

import { detect } from 'detect-package-manager'
import { detect } from 'package-manager-detector'

const pm = await detect() 
const result = await detect() 
const pm = result?.name 

NOTE

package-manager-detector returns an object with name and agent properties, while detect-package-manager returns a string directly.

Both packages can detect npm, yarn, pnpm, and bun package managers in your project by analyzing lock files. Additionally, package-manager-detector also supports deno.