create-effing

This is a placeholder package. It exists so the unscoped create-effing name on npm cannot be hijacked by a third party to attack users who typo the official command.

You probably want this instead

npm create @effing my-app
pnpm create @effing my-app
yarn create @effing my-app

These resolve to @effing/create, the real Effing project scaffolder.

If you accidentally ran npm create effing (without the @), this package will print the correct command and exit with a non-zero status. It never downloads, executes, or generates anything on your machine.

Why this exists

npm create <name> resolves to the unscoped package create-<name>, while npm create @scope resolves to @scope/create. Those are different packages on the registry. Publishing a benign placeholder on the unscoped name closes a typosquatting hole that could otherwise be used to run arbitrary code during scaffolding.

See @effing/create for the actual scaffolder source.