Is there anything like NPM or pip for Crystal?
Are there plans or a roadmap to achieve this?
I have gotten tired of copying and pasting github repositories into my shards file.
The dependency manager for Crystal is shards. However, different from npm or pip, there is no centralized repository for registering shards. This has some benefits, among them avoiding a critical point of failure.
For the process of configuring your shard dependencies, this makes no significant difference. It's just that instead of adding a registered name, you put in the address of a repository.
Currently, there is no option to add a shard to your shards file directly from the command line (but there is an issue for that) so you have to edit shards.yml and add it manually.
Honestly, I don't think this is much of a disturbance. I can't remember using a command line tool to add a local dependency even if many dependency managers support that. If you're adding a dependency, you'll also have to add code to use it. So you'll need to work in an editor anyway and can easily edit the dependency file there.