Running bash scripts with npm

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Mark McKelvy picture Mark McKelvy · Jan 22, 2016 · Viewed 84.5k times · Source

I want to try using npm to run my various build tasks for a web application. I know I can do this by adding a scripts field to my package.json like so:

"scripts": {
   "build": "some build command"
},

This gets unwieldy when you have more complex commands with a bunch of options. Is it possible to move these commands to a bash script or something along those lines? Something like:

"scripts": {
   "build": "build.sh"
},

where npm run build would execute the commands in the build.sh file?

Reading through this post it seems like it is, but I'm not clear on exactly where I'm supposed to drop my build.sh file or if I'm missing something.

Answer

eblahm picture eblahm · Jan 22, 2016

Its totally possible... 

"scripts": {
   "build": "./build.sh"
},

also, make sure you put a hash bang at the top of your bash file #!/usr/bin/env bash

also make sure you have permissions to execute the file 

chmod +x ./build.sh

Finally, the command to run build in npm would be 

npm run build

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