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Although true, it is the same for npm or yarn too. There's no real solution to the typo problem, and it's not npx specific.


In a team environment npm or yarn configuration would go through peer review, whereas getting used to typing npx increases your chances of falling victim to a typo.


The npx part is only to setup the project, which is making a package.json and a src directory.




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