npm-run-parallel
Advanced tools
Run npm tasks in parallel and exit when they are all done.
Locally (recommended, especially with npm scripts):
npm install npm-run-parallel
Globally, as a CLI:
npm install -g npm-run-parallel
From the command line, or an npm script:
npm-run-parallel <npm scripts>
So, if I want to run npm install and npm test in parallel (a contrived example, I know!):
npm-run-parallel install test
The process will complete when both npm install and npm test finish.
Note: you can run custom npm scripts, too. Just like you would install or test above.
On a given project, there are likely some long or expensive npm scripts, like asset compilation or multi-directory dependency installs. It's faster to do these in parallel.
A common way to run any shell command (which an npm script is) is the & operator, which creates a subprocess. This subprocess runs separately, so the original process can never tell how or when the subprocess ended. In a similar vein, the | operator can pipe the output of one command to another. This can feel like streaming, but passing the output of one npm script to another is both a hack and prone to erroring out.
Some build tools, like gulp, accomplish parallel commands (a.k.a. tasks) with streaming libraries. The recent trend towards npm scripts from these walled-garden tools necessitated emulating that functionality. So npm-run-parallel all the tasks!
Yes! It's awesome. I learned a lot about streams and stdout in the process of making this.
See CONTRIBUTING.md for the code of conduct.
npm run watch - Compile source code, and watch for changes
npm run lint - Lints source code (eslint)
npm run test:watch - Run tests and watch for file changes
npm run build - Compiles source code (also used in prepublish)
npm run test - Run unit tests once
npm run start -- - Emulates the cli interface (note: pass it task arguments. Useful for manual testing.)
FAQs
Run npm tasks in parallel and exit when they are all done.
We found that npm-run-parallel demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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