Postgres - npm script to drop/add database - postgresql

Question

I want to simplify my life and automate the process of adding/dropping my test db via an npm script, however I am running into issues.
Attempt 1:
"drop-db:local": "psql postgres \"drop database blog_db; create database blog_db; \\c blog_db; CREATE EXTENSION \"pgcrypto\";\""
After running this, I keep getting the following error
psql: error: could not connect to server: FATAL: Peer authentication failed for user "drop database blog_db; create database blog_db; \c "
Attempt 2:
changed
psql postgres
to
psql -h localhost -U rm postgres
So this opens the db in my terminal but that seems to ignore some stuff as mentioned in the msg below
psql: warning: extra command-line argument "drop database blog_db; create database blog_db; \c blog_db; CREATE EXTENSION pgcrypto;" ignored
What am I doing wrong?
This is a list of my db users
postgres=# \du
List of roles
Role name | Attributes | Member of
-----------+------------------------------------------------------------+-----------
postgres | Superuser, Create role, Create DB, Replication, Bypass RLS | {}
rm | Superuser, Create DB | {}
db version: psql (12.2 (Ubuntu 12.2-2.pgdg18.04+1))

Answer 1

You need to use -c or -f with your psql command.
As the psql help shows:
-c, --command=COMMAND run only single command (SQL or internal) and exit
-f, --file=FILENAME execute commands from file, then exit
As you are using multiple commands so it will be better of you use -f followed by a sql file name that has all the commands e.g your drop_create_db.sql file can have following code:
drop database blog_db;
create database blog_db;
\c blog_db;
CREATE EXTENSION "pgcrypto";
And you may run this file by using the following command
"drop-db:local": psql -U postgres -d postgres -p 5432 -f /tmp/drop_create_db.sql