fix npm init flag handling in create-astro (#1862)

* fix npm init flag handling

* Update index.ts

* Update real-cats-act.md

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/packages/create-astro/src/index.ts b/packages/create-astro/src/index.ts
index 3b61333e0..9f09722d1 100644
--- a/packages/create-astro/src/index.ts
+++ b/packages/create-astro/src/index.ts
@@ -8,7 +8,13 @@ import yargs from 'yargs-parser';
 import { FRAMEWORKS, COUNTER_COMPONENTS } from './frameworks.js';
 import { TEMPLATES } from './templates.js';
 import { createConfig } from './config.js';
-const args = yargs(process.argv);
+
+// NOTE: In the v7.x version of npm, the default behavior of `npm init` was changed
+// to no longer require `--` to pass args and instead pass `--` directly to us. This 
+// broke our arg parser, since `--` is a special kind of flag. Filtering for `--` here 
+// fixes the issue so that create-astro now works on all npm version.
+const cleanArgv = process.argv.filter(arg => arg !== '--')
+const args = yargs(cleanArgv);
 prompts.override(args);
 
 export function mkdirp(dir: string) {