Replace pnpm in README to selected package manager

[Netail]

Which project is this feature idea for?

Turborepo

Describe the feature you'd like to request

Replace the pnpm commands in the README from the basic turborepo example (which is used by npx create-turbo@latest) with the selected package manager from the CLI command

Describe the solution you'd like

Replace the pnpm commands in the README with the selected package manager

Describe alternatives you've considered

List commands for all package managers in the README

[mehulkar]

This could be as simple as modifying the README, or only including a template README with placeholders that gets processed by create-turbo. Could open up the ability to let the user add name to root package.json (or even specific workspaces, etc). cc @anthonyshew

[NicholasLYang]

Agreed, I think this could be a really nice first issue

[DependerKumarSoni]

Hi Team,

I feel interested in this good first issue and want to begin my open-source contribution with TurboRepo.
Will you please assign this to me?

Please let me know if this is the place where the feature is requested:
https://github.com/vercel/turbo/tree/main/examples/basic

with regards,
Depender K. Soni

[mehulkar]

@DependerKumarSoni yes, that's the right place along with the create-turbo package source code: https://github.com/vercel/turbo/tree/main/packages/create-turbo
I'll assign to you, thank you!

[tknickman]

I think the best way to do this would be a new transformer here: https://github.com/vercel/turbo/tree/main/packages/create-turbo/src/transforms

It could go into the package manager transformer as well, but I wouldn't be opposed to keeping that isolated and making a new, docs related transformer.

[DependerKumarSoni]

@mehulkar
Thanks for assigning this issue to me.

Please let me know if I am thinking in the right direction:

1. The user runs the npx create-turbo@latest command.
2. There comes a prompt on the terminal to enter the project name, which later updates that name to the package.json.
3. Another prompt asks for the package manager (npm, pnpm, yarn, bun) and updates the README.md file accordingly.

This could be as simple as modifying the README, or only including a template README with placeholders that get processed by create-turbo. Could open up the ability to let the user add name to root package.json (or even specific workspaces, etc)

[anthonyshew]

@DependerKumarSoni, I'd recommend keeping your PR as small as possible. Let's focus it on getting the README transform done.

We won't need to any more prompts than what create-turbo does today. The existing "Select a package manager" step should tell the transform how to update the README commands.

The other work Mehul has mentioned has some design implications that I'd like to think about more deeply so let's keep that as future work. 👍

[tknickman]

@DependerKumarSoni we already add the specified name to the root package.json for the basic example, so that doesn't need to be done. That's handled here: https://github.com/vercel/turbo/blob/main/packages/create-turbo/src/transforms/official-starter.ts#L56C20-L60

We discussed doing this for all examples, but originally decided against it. If we want to change that in the future it's a simple change here!