npm-run-all

Making npm scripts great again!

See: npm-run-all

npm scripts are great, but it started to get out of hand. Use this trick to clean up your package.json and give some great output!

Install

npm i --save-dev npm-run-all

package.json

  "scripts": {
    "start"  : "npm-run-all -l start:*",
    "start:1": "echo 'this is start 1'",
    "start:2": "echo 'this is start 2'",
    "start:3": "echo 'this is start 3'",
    "start:4": "echo 'this is start 4'",
    "start:5": "echo 'this is start 5'",
    "startme"  : "npm-run-all -l start:*"
  }

Running

# I am hijacking the start script
>>> npm start

# Otherwise...
>>> npm run startme

Output

Conclusion

Cleaner package.json, better output, useful? What do you think?