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Sep 19 - Sep 25, 2022

Articles

• How to Use npm as a Build Tool - Sequel to »Why we should stop using Grunt & Gulp«.

• Running cross-platform tasks via npm package scripts - The most comprehensive guide to using npm Scripts by Dr. Axel Rauschmayer.

Feb 25 - Mar 03, 2019

Videos/Talks

• Advanced front-end automation with npm scripts - Talk at Nordic.js 2015 by Kate Hudson.

Cross-platform Utilities

• cpr (⭐76) - cp -r for Node.js.

Other Utilities / Utility Packs

• Bower files CLI (⭐3) - Get main bower files on the command line.

Cross-platform Shell Reference / Utility Packs

• Use && to run commands in sequence. If a command fails, the script exits.

• Use | to pipe the stdout of one command into the stdin of the next. (do-something | something else)

• Use > to write the stdout of a command to a file. (do-something > file)

• Use < to send the contents of a file to a command's stdin. (command < file)

• Use cd <dir> to change the current working directory to <dir>. Note that cd alone prints the current working directory on windows, but changes the working directory to ~ on *nix.

Apr 02 - Apr 08, 2018

Articles

• Helpers and tips for npm run scripts - Blog post by Michael Kühnel covering advanced topics.

Other Utilities / Utility Packs

• cli-error-notifier (⭐64) - Send native desktop notifications when npm scripts fail.

Miscellaneous / Utility Packs

• ntl (⭐872) - Interactive cli menu to list and run npm scripts.

May 15 - May 21, 2017

Cross-platform Utilities

• rimraf (⭐4.9k) - Delete files or directories; like rm -rf.

• mkdirp - Create a directory, creating parent directories if needed; like mkdir -p.

• cpy-cli (⭐279) - File/directory copying/renaming.

• copyfiles (⭐345) - Copy a list of files into a directory.

• sync-files (⭐42) - rsync-like directory syncing with watch mode.

• clear-cli (⭐46) - Clear the terminal.

• ntee (⭐23) - Utility that reads from standard input and writes to standard output and files; like Unix tee.

• catw - Print a file to stdout, with optional watch mode; sorta like Unix cat.

Cross-platform Utilities / Utility Packs

• shx (⭐1.4k) - Collection of common Unix utilities implemented in Node.js; example usage: shx rm somefile.

Apr 24 - Apr 30, 2017

Articles

• Why we should stop using Grunt & Gulp - Blog post by Keith Cirkel.

• Why I Left Gulp and Grunt for npm Scripts - Article by Cory House.

Dev Servers

• http-server (⭐12k) - Simple zero-configuration command-line http server.

Cross-platform Utilities

• cross-os (⭐34) - Run platform-specific npm scripts.

Miscellaneous / Utility Packs

• Forrest (⭐338) - npm scripts desktop client.

Apr 03 - Apr 09, 2017

Miscellaneous / Utility Packs

• edit-script (⭐9) - Edit npm scripts from the command line without worrying about JSON escaping.

Jan 30 - Feb 05, 2017

Videos/Talks

• How to create a build system with npm scripts - Video tutorial series on setting up a front-end build system.

Dec 26 - Jan 01, 2016

Other Utilities / Utility Packs

• headr (⭐3) - Add header / banner info to a file.

Oct 10 - Oct 16, 2016

Miscellaneous / Utility Packs

• npm-quick-run (⭐131) - Quickly run npm scripts by prefix without typing the full name.

Oct 03 - Oct 09, 2016

Task Runners

• redrun (⭐110) - Expand scripts from package.json to improve execution speed.

Dev Servers

• live-server (⭐4k) - Simple development http server with live reload capability.

Cross-platform Utilities

• del-cli (⭐265) - Safer file and folder deletion.

• cross-env (⭐5.9k) - Set environment variables for scripts, unix-style.

Other Utilities / Utility Packs

• gzip-size-cli (⭐180) - Get the gzipped size of a file or stdin.

• opn-cli (⭐370) - Open websites, files, executables, etc. with the user's preferred application.

Miscellaneous / Utility Packs

• run-npm (⭐180) - Run locally-installed node module executables. Useful for debugging npm scripts.

Sep 26 - Oct 02, 2016

Miscellaneous / Utility Packs

• screwy (⭐106) - The npm scripts GUI.

npm run Reference / Utility Packs

• You can pass arguments to your scripts by passing -- to npm run, followed by the arguments. Example: Given the script "mocha": "mocha", you can run npm run mocha -- --reporter xunit. This effectively runs mocha --reporter xunit.

• You can run npm run <script> -s to silence the default npm output (useful for calling a script within another script).

Sep 05 - Sep 11, 2016

Task Runners

• script-runner (⭐25) - Simple task runner with a terse syntax.

• npm-run-all (⭐5k) - Fully featured task runner.

File Watchers

• onchange (⭐775) - onchange <glob> -- <command>.

• watch (⭐1.2k) - watch <command> <directory>.

Cross-platform Utilities

• echo-cli (⭐6) - Cross-platform echo with JS escape sequence support.

Other Utilities / Utility Packs

• hashmark (⭐194) - Take contents of a file and output as new file with a hash in the name.

npm run Reference / Utility Packs

• Run just npm run to print a list of scripts.

• Running npm run script (where script is the name of your script) will run prescript, script, and postscript; in that order.
  • You can't nest pre and post hooks (i.e. preprescript won't work).

• Running npm test is the same as running npm run test. The same applies to npm start and npm stop.