NPM-RESTART(1) - Restart a package

Synopsis

npm restart [-- <args>]

Description

This restarts a project. It is equivalent to running npm run-script restart.

If the current project has a "restart" script specified in package.json, then the following scripts will be run:

1.: prerestart
2.: restart
3.: postrestart

If it does not have a "restart" script specified, but it does have stop and/or start scripts, then the following scripts will be run:

1.: prerestart
2.: prestop
3.: stop
4.: poststop
5.: prestart
6.: start
7.: poststart
8.: postrestart

ignore-scripts

Default: false
Type: Boolean

If true, npm does not run scripts specified in package.json files.

Note that commands explicitly intended to run a particular script, such as npm start, npm stop, npm restart, npm test, and npm run-script will still run their intended script if ignore-scripts is set, but they will not run any pre- or post-scripts.

script-shell

Default: '/bin/sh' on POSIX systems, 'cmd.exe' on Windows
Type: null or String

The shell to use for scripts run with the npm exec, npm run and npm init <pkg> commands.

NAME

Synopsis

Description

Configuration

ignore-scripts

script-shell

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