[BUG] npx npm_config_yes=true or --yes not working as expected and npx still requires confirmation for installation

[ekelvin]

tried npm_config_yes=true
tried --yes
and I still get requires confirmation for installation

context:
$ npm -v
8.11.0
$ node -v
v16.15.1

[ekelvin]

Can anyone help on this? Any workaround?

[nlf]

the prompts you're seeing aren't coming from npm, it looks like the expo package itself is printing those and offering to globally install packages for you. you can see that here: https://github.com/expo/expo/blob/8a782c0f0d548080e0c935a9cd94c36a600af01d/packages/expo/bin/cli.js#L24-L29

unfortunately we can't help much with that. i'm going to close this since it's not our bug, but i do think it would be a good idea for you to open an issue in their repo asking them to support some form of skipping that prompt.