Will this work with deno or bao?

[BradKML]

Thinking of using the faster package managers

[SethFalco]

TL;DR: Yes for Deno, didn't check Bao.

It's almost always going to be faster to just try rather than ask us!

You could create a Docker container, throw Deno on there, and simply install tldr to see how it goes. I'm not sure about other maintainers, but I for example don't pay much mind to Deno, so it makes more sense for you to investigate it than me for example.

In this instance, happy to run the test for you though. But I recommend giving it a try yourself next time around! (Or even follow along, if you get stuck anywhere you can throw your question here and I'll try to clear things up for you.)

On my host environment, I use Docker to create a disposable Linux container:

docker run -it --rm debian:trixie bash

In the disposable container:

# check for updates
apt update

# install curl and unzip which are needed to install deno
apt install -y curl unzip

# install deno
curl -fsSL https://deno.land/install.sh | sh

# to avoid needing to respawn the shell, we'll just source our .bashrc again
. ~/.bashrc

# install tldr globally
deno install --global npm:tldr

# we can use tldr normally, but i use deno run -A to bypass all the permission logic
deno run -A npm:tldr --update
deno run -A npm:tldr ps

Example output:

root@28a3b46617df:/# deno run -A npm:tldr tldr

  tldr

  Display simple help pages for command-line tools from the tldr-pages project.
  Note: The --language and --list options are not required by the client specification, but most clients implement them.
  More information: https://github.com/tldr-pages/tldr/blob/main/CLIENT-SPECIFICATION.md#command-line-interface.

  - Print the tldr page for a specific command (hint: this is how you got here!):
    tldr command

  - Print the tldr page for a specific subcommand:
    tldr command subcommand

  - Print the tldr page for a command in the given language (if available, otherwise fall back to English):
    tldr [-L|--language] language_code command

  - Print the tldr page for a command from a specific platform:
    tldr [-p|--platform] android|cisco-ios|common|dos|freebsd|linux|netbsd|openbsd|osx|sunos|windows command

  - Update the local cache of tldr pages:
    tldr [-u|--update]

  - List all pages for the current platform and common:
    tldr [-l|--list]

  - List all available subcommand pages for a command:
    tldr [-l|--list] | grep command | column

  - Print the tldr page for a random command:
    tldr [-l|--list] | shuf [-n|--head-count] 1 | xargs tldr