npm scripts

I came across this Dev.to article which summarized all the advantages of npm scripts. Some of them made me very surprised!

Executing multiple scripts

# Run in series npm run lint && npm run test # Run in parallel npm run lint & npm run test

Pre & Post

"prebuild": "npm t", "build": "npm run build", "postbuild": "echo VERSION_NUM=$BUILD_NUM > version.txt",

When we execute npm run build, npm will execute the scripts in the following order: prebuild, build, postbuild automatically!

Env variables

Environment variables can be added through the config field in package.json and can be accessed using $npm_package_config prefix. (would it be pnpm_package_config for pnpm? :thinking_face:)

Many thanks to the written article for enlightening me on something so simple yet overlooked!