I wanted a tiny CLI tool for a very specific workflow: take an image and expand its canvas to 1200x630, centered, without resizing the image itself. Useful for Open Graph images.
But the interesting part was not the image logic. The interesting part was this constraint:
I do not want global Node, npm, pnpm, TypeScript, or tsx.
That changes the setup.
pnpm is a JavaScript package manager, like npm and Yarn, but with a very opinionated design: fast installs, less disk usage, stricter dependency resolution, and strong monorepo support. Its name originally stands for “performant npm”. It reached v1 in 2017, after earlier work starting in 2016, and it was heavily inspired by ideas from ied, another experimental package manager. (Medium)