npx remark stopped working

[Xunnamius]

As of ~4 days ago, invoking remark via npx remark in my pipelines seems to have stopped working. Given the timing, it may have to do with the latest releases of the remark and remark-cli packages.

Initial checklist

• I read the support docs
• I read the contributing guide
• I agree to follow the code of conduct
• I searched issues and couldn’t find anything (or linked relevant results below)

Affected packages and versions

remark: 15.0.1, remark-cli: 12.0.1

Steps to reproduce

1. Run npx remark --help in a terminal with npx in the path.

Expected behavior

Should run remark CLI like normal.

Actual behavior

npm ERR! could not determine executable to run

Runtime

Node v21.7.3

Package manager

NPM 10.5.0

OS

Linux (Ubuntu)

Build and bundle tools

N/A

[wooorm]

I can’t imagine something happening 4 days ago? There was a CLI release 7 days ago?
This is also around the time of Node 22 coming out, with a new npm probably?

[wooorm]

Wait, has this ever worked? Because you always had to install remark-cli, and then use it as the command remark?

npx --package remark-cli -- remark --help

Perhaps npx worked before when you already had remark-cli installed locally, and thus had the remark command?

[Xunnamius]

Looking at a handful of my other remark-powered projects, they do have remark-cli installed locally as you describe, and this newer project does not.

The strange thing is, everything was working fine until I updated deps last Friday. Perhaps remark-cli was a transitive dep of some deeper package that dropped it after I updated, which would explain why this didn't break here earlier. Either way, installing remark-cli (or just doing npx remark-cli) returned everything to working order, so this likely isn't your problem and we can close this issue.

Thanks for the quick reply and apologies for the time sink!

[github-actions]

Hi! Thanks for reaching out! Because we treat issues as our backlog, we close issues that are questions since they don’t represent a task to be completed.

See our support docs for how and where to ask questions.

Thanks,
— bb

[wooorm]

No worries!