Could Hexo's installation commands be simpler?

[bl-sun]

I found that installing Hexo requires only the following 3 commands.

npx hexo init blog
cd blog
npx hexo server

But the homepage prompts us to use the following 5 commands.

npm install hexo-cli -g
hexo init blog
cd blog
npm install
hexo server

And the npm install hexo command in the figure below doesn't seem to be necessary.

[stevenjoezhang]

You cannot run npx hexo init blog on a brand new machine. If you have not installed Hexo previously, npx hexo will report a command not found error.

[bl-sun]

I learned about the npx command out of personal interest. I read from his blog that the npx command temporarily installs the specified package. So I don't think you need the npm install command.

And then in the official document is described like this.

I have installed a different version of nodejs using 'NVM for windows' to try it out myself with no error. I'm not sure I've ever installed hexo globally, though.

ps: 有道翻译的，不知道有没有问题。我看他们的描述，应该是可以的。我用nvm for windows安装了其他版本的nodejs，直接使用npx hexo是可以的。但是我不太确定，我在之前版本上全局安装hexo是不是有影响。

[stevenjoezhang]

很有意思，我第一次知道npx还有这个特性。不过我仍然建议通过npm i -g hexo进行安装，因为这样可以直接执行hexo命令（更加简单）。如果通过npx hexo 安装，每次执行都需要加npx 前缀。

I still recommend installing via npm i -g hexo because it allows you to execute the hexo command directly (which is simpler). If you install using npx hexo, you'll need to prefix the command with npx each time you run it.

[stevenjoezhang]

The documentation "Advanced installation and usage" is a little confusing. The prerequisite for npm install hexo is that you create a workspace in a new directory and have not previously installed hexo globally or in that workspace. If the workspace was created using hexo init, then npm install hexo is no longer necessary.