valid-packageManager

💼 This rule is enabled in the following configs: ✅ recommended, 📦 recommended-publishable.

This rule uses package-json-validator to validate the packageManager property, if present, against the following criteria:

• It should have a string value
• It should be in the form "packageManager@version"
• The packageManager portion should be one of npm, pnpm, yarn, bun, or deno
• The version portion should be a full semver version number, optionally followed by a sha hash for that version

Examples

❌ Incorrect

{
  "packageManager": "pnpm@>=10"
}

✅ Correct

{
  "packageManager": "pnpm@10.3.0"
}

{
  "packageManager": "pnpm@10.3.0+sha224.953c8233f7a92884eee2de69a1b92d1f2ec1655e66d08071ba9a02fa"
}

Related Rules

• require-packageManager - Enforces that the packageManager property is present.

Further Reading

• Node.js: corepack > When Authoring Packages