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- <h2 id="table-of-contents">Table of contents</h2>
- <div id="_table_of_contents"><ul><li><a href="#description">Description</a></li><li><a href="#pre--post-scripts">Pre & Post Scripts</a></li><li><a href="#life-cycle-scripts">Life Cycle Scripts</a></li><ul><li><a href="#prepare-and-prepublish">Prepare and Prepublish</a></li></ul><li><a href="#life-cycle-operation-order">Life Cycle Operation Order</a></li><ul><li><a href="#npm-cache-add"><a href="../commands/npm-cache.html"><code>npm cache add</code></a></a></li><li><a href="#npm-ci"><a href="../commands/npm-ci.html"><code>npm ci</code></a></a></li><li><a href="#npm-diff"><a href="../commands/npm-diff.html"><code>npm diff</code></a></a></li><li><a href="#npm-install"><a href="../commands/npm-install.html"><code>npm install</code></a></a></li><li><a href="#npm-pack"><a href="../commands/npm-pack.html"><code>npm pack</code></a></a></li><li><a href="#npm-publish"><a href="../commands/npm-publish.html"><code>npm publish</code></a></a></li><li><a href="#npm-rebuild"><a href="../commands/npm-rebuild.html"><code>npm rebuild</code></a></a></li><li><a href="#npm-restart"><a href="../commands/npm-restart.html"><code>npm restart</code></a></a></li><li><a href="#npm-run-user-defined"><a href="../commands/npm-run-script.html"><code>npm run <user defined></code></a></a></li><li><a href="#npm-start"><a href="../commands/npm-start.html"><code>npm start</code></a></a></li><li><a href="#npm-stop"><a href="../commands/npm-stop.html"><code>npm stop</code></a></a></li><li><a href="#npm-test"><a href="../commands/npm-test.html"><code>npm test</code></a></a></li><li><a href="#a-note-on-a-lack-of-npm-uninstall-scripts">A Note on a lack of <a href="../commands/npm-uninstall.html"><code>npm uninstall</code></a> scripts</a></li></ul><li><a href="#user">User</a></li><li><a href="#environment">Environment</a></li><ul><li><a href="#path">path</a></li><li><a href="#packagejson-vars">package.json vars</a></li><li><a href="#current-lifecycle-event">current lifecycle event</a></li></ul><li><a href="#examples">Examples</a></li><li><a href="#exiting">Exiting</a></li><li><a href="#best-practices">Best Practices</a></li><li><a href="#see-also">See Also</a></li></ul></div>
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- <div id="_content"><h3 id="description">Description</h3>
- <p>The <code>"scripts"</code> property of your <code>package.json</code> file supports a number
- of built-in scripts and their preset life cycle events as well as
- arbitrary scripts. These all can be executed by running
- <code>npm run-script <stage></code> or <code>npm run <stage></code> for short. <em>Pre</em> and <em>post</em>
- commands with matching names will be run for those as well (e.g. <code>premyscript</code>,
- <code>myscript</code>, <code>postmyscript</code>). Scripts from dependencies can be run with
- <code>npm explore <pkg> -- npm run <stage></code>.</p>
- <h3 id="pre--post-scripts">Pre & Post Scripts</h3>
- <p>To create “pre” or “post” scripts for any scripts defined in the
- <code>"scripts"</code> section of the <code>package.json</code>, simply create another script
- <em>with a matching name</em> and add “pre” or “post” to the beginning of them.</p>
- <pre lang="json"><code>{
- "scripts": {
- "precompress": "{{ executes BEFORE the `compress` script }}",
- "compress": "{{ run command to compress files }}",
- "postcompress": "{{ executes AFTER `compress` script }}"
- }
- }
- </code></pre>
- <p>In this example <code>npm run compress</code> would execute these scripts as
- described.</p>
- <h3 id="life-cycle-scripts">Life Cycle Scripts</h3>
- <p>There are some special life cycle scripts that happen only in certain
- situations. These scripts happen in addition to the <code>pre<event></code>, <code>post<event></code>, and
- <code><event></code> scripts.</p>
- <ul>
- <li><code>prepare</code>, <code>prepublish</code>, <code>prepublishOnly</code>, <code>prepack</code>, <code>postpack</code></li>
- </ul>
- <p><strong>prepare</strong> (since <code>npm@4.0.0</code>)</p>
- <ul>
- <li>
- <p>Runs any time before the package is packed, i.e. during <code>npm publish</code>
- and <code>npm pack</code></p>
- </li>
- <li>
- <p>Runs BEFORE the package is packed</p>
- </li>
- <li>
- <p>Runs BEFORE the package is published</p>
- </li>
- <li>
- <p>Runs on local <code>npm install</code> without any arguments</p>
- </li>
- <li>
- <p>Run AFTER <code>prepublish</code>, but BEFORE <code>prepublishOnly</code></p>
- </li>
- <li>
- <p>NOTE: If a package being installed through git contains a <code>prepare</code>
- script, its <code>dependencies</code> and <code>devDependencies</code> will be installed, and
- the prepare script will be run, before the package is packaged and
- installed.</p>
- </li>
- <li>
- <p>As of <code>npm@7</code> these scripts run in the background.
- To see the output, run with: <code>--foreground-scripts</code>.</p>
- </li>
- </ul>
- <p><strong>prepublish</strong> (DEPRECATED)</p>
- <ul>
- <li>Does not run during <code>npm publish</code>, but does run during <code>npm ci</code>
- and <code>npm install</code>. See below for more info.</li>
- </ul>
- <p><strong>prepublishOnly</strong></p>
- <ul>
- <li>Runs BEFORE the package is prepared and packed, ONLY on <code>npm publish</code>.</li>
- </ul>
- <p><strong>prepack</strong></p>
- <ul>
- <li>Runs BEFORE a tarball is packed (on “<code>npm pack</code>”, “<code>npm publish</code>”, and when installing a git dependencies).</li>
- <li>NOTE: “<code>npm run pack</code>” is NOT the same as “<code>npm pack</code>”. “<code>npm run pack</code>” is an arbitrary user defined script name, where as, “<code>npm pack</code>” is a CLI defined command.</li>
- </ul>
- <p><strong>postpack</strong></p>
- <ul>
- <li>Runs AFTER the tarball has been generated but before it is moved to its final destination (if at all, publish does not save the tarball locally)</li>
- </ul>
- <h4 id="prepare-and-prepublish">Prepare and Prepublish</h4>
- <p><strong>Deprecation Note: prepublish</strong></p>
- <p>Since <code>npm@1.1.71</code>, the npm CLI has run the <code>prepublish</code> script for both <code>npm publish</code> and <code>npm install</code>, because it’s a convenient way to prepare a package for use (some common use cases are described in the section below). It has also turned out to be, in practice, <a href="https://github.com/npm/npm/issues/10074">very confusing</a>. As of <code>npm@4.0.0</code>, a new event has been introduced, <code>prepare</code>, that preserves this existing behavior. A <em>new</em> event, <code>prepublishOnly</code> has been added as a transitional strategy to allow users to avoid the confusing behavior of existing npm versions and only run on <code>npm publish</code> (for instance, running the tests one last time to ensure they’re in good shape).</p>
- <p>See <a href="https://github.com/npm/npm/issues/10074">https://github.com/npm/npm/issues/10074</a> for a much lengthier justification, with further reading, for this change.</p>
- <p><strong>Use Cases</strong></p>
- <p>If you need to perform operations on your package before it is used, in a way that is not dependent on the operating system or architecture of the target system, use a <code>prepublish</code> script. This includes tasks such as:</p>
- <ul>
- <li>Compiling CoffeeScript source code into JavaScript.</li>
- <li>Creating minified versions of JavaScript source code.</li>
- <li>Fetching remote resources that your package will use.</li>
- </ul>
- <p>The advantage of doing these things at <code>prepublish</code> time is that they can be done once, in a single place, thus reducing complexity and variability. Additionally, this means that:</p>
- <ul>
- <li>You can depend on <code>coffee-script</code> as a <code>devDependency</code>, and thus
- your users don’t need to have it installed.</li>
- <li>You don’t need to include minifiers in your package, reducing
- the size for your users.</li>
- <li>You don’t need to rely on your users having <code>curl</code> or <code>wget</code> or
- other system tools on the target machines.</li>
- </ul>
- <h3 id="life-cycle-operation-order">Life Cycle Operation Order</h3>
- <h4 id="npm-cache-add"><a href="../commands/npm-cache.html"><code>npm cache add</code></a></h4>
- <ul>
- <li><code>prepare</code></li>
- </ul>
- <h4 id="npm-ci"><a href="../commands/npm-ci.html"><code>npm ci</code></a></h4>
- <ul>
- <li><code>preinstall</code></li>
- <li><code>install</code></li>
- <li><code>postinstall</code></li>
- <li><code>prepublish</code></li>
- <li><code>preprepare</code></li>
- <li><code>prepare</code></li>
- <li><code>postprepare</code></li>
- </ul>
- <p>These all run after the actual installation of modules into
- <code>node_modules</code>, in order, with no internal actions happening in between</p>
- <h4 id="npm-diff"><a href="../commands/npm-diff.html"><code>npm diff</code></a></h4>
- <ul>
- <li><code>prepare</code></li>
- </ul>
- <h4 id="npm-install"><a href="../commands/npm-install.html"><code>npm install</code></a></h4>
- <p>These also run when you run <code>npm install -g <pkg-name></code></p>
- <ul>
- <li><code>preinstall</code></li>
- <li><code>install</code></li>
- <li><code>postinstall</code></li>
- <li><code>prepublish</code></li>
- <li><code>preprepare</code></li>
- <li><code>prepare</code></li>
- <li><code>postprepare</code></li>
- </ul>
- <p>If there is a <code>binding.gyp</code> file in the root of your package and you
- haven’t defined your own <code>install</code> or <code>preinstall</code> scripts, npm will
- default the <code>install</code> command to compile using node-gyp via <code>node-gyp rebuild</code></p>
- <p>These are run from the scripts of <code><pkg-name></code></p>
- <h4 id="npm-pack"><a href="../commands/npm-pack.html"><code>npm pack</code></a></h4>
- <ul>
- <li><code>prepack</code></li>
- <li><code>prepare</code></li>
- <li><code>postpack</code></li>
- </ul>
- <h4 id="npm-publish"><a href="../commands/npm-publish.html"><code>npm publish</code></a></h4>
- <ul>
- <li><code>prepublishOnly</code></li>
- <li><code>prepack</code></li>
- <li><code>prepare</code></li>
- <li><code>postpack</code></li>
- <li><code>publish</code></li>
- <li><code>postpublish</code></li>
- </ul>
- <p><code>prepare</code> will not run during <code>--dry-run</code></p>
- <h4 id="npm-rebuild"><a href="../commands/npm-rebuild.html"><code>npm rebuild</code></a></h4>
- <ul>
- <li><code>preinstall</code></li>
- <li><code>install</code></li>
- <li><code>postinstall</code></li>
- <li><code>prepare</code></li>
- </ul>
- <p><code>prepare</code> is only run if the current directory is a symlink (e.g. with
- linked packages)</p>
- <h4 id="npm-restart"><a href="../commands/npm-restart.html"><code>npm restart</code></a></h4>
- <p>If there is a <code>restart</code> script defined, these events are run, otherwise
- <code>stop</code> and <code>start</code> are both run if present, including their <code>pre</code> and
- <code>post</code> iterations)</p>
- <ul>
- <li><code>prerestart</code></li>
- <li><code>restart</code></li>
- <li><code>postrestart</code></li>
- </ul>
- <h4 id="npm-run-user-defined"><a href="../commands/npm-run-script.html"><code>npm run <user defined></code></a></h4>
- <ul>
- <li><code>pre<user-defined></code></li>
- <li><code><user-defined></code></li>
- <li><code>post<user-defined></code></li>
- </ul>
- <h4 id="npm-start"><a href="../commands/npm-start.html"><code>npm start</code></a></h4>
- <ul>
- <li><code>prestart</code></li>
- <li><code>start</code></li>
- <li><code>poststart</code></li>
- </ul>
- <p>If there is a <code>server.js</code> file in the root of your package, then npm
- will default the <code>start</code> command to <code>node server.js</code>. <code>prestart</code> and
- <code>poststart</code> will still run in this case.</p>
- <h4 id="npm-stop"><a href="../commands/npm-stop.html"><code>npm stop</code></a></h4>
- <ul>
- <li><code>prestop</code></li>
- <li><code>stop</code></li>
- <li><code>poststop</code></li>
- </ul>
- <h4 id="npm-test"><a href="../commands/npm-test.html"><code>npm test</code></a></h4>
- <ul>
- <li><code>pretest</code></li>
- <li><code>test</code></li>
- <li><code>posttest</code></li>
- </ul>
- <h4 id="a-note-on-a-lack-of-npm-uninstall-scripts">A Note on a lack of <a href="../commands/npm-uninstall.html"><code>npm uninstall</code></a> scripts</h4>
- <p>While npm v6 had <code>uninstall</code> lifecycle scripts, npm v7 does not. Removal of a package can happen for a wide variety of reasons, and there’s no clear way to currently give the script enough context to be useful.</p>
- <p>Reasons for a package removal include:</p>
- <ul>
- <li>a user directly uninstalled this package</li>
- <li>a user uninstalled a dependant package and so this dependency is being uninstalled</li>
- <li>a user uninstalled a dependant package but another package also depends on this version</li>
- <li>this version has been merged as a duplicate with another version</li>
- <li>etc.</li>
- </ul>
- <p>Due to the lack of necessary context, <code>uninstall</code> lifecycle scripts are not implemented and will not function.</p>
- <h3 id="user">User</h3>
- <p>When npm is run as root, scripts are always run with the effective uid
- and gid of the working directory owner.</p>
- <h3 id="environment">Environment</h3>
- <p>Package scripts run in an environment where many pieces of information
- are made available regarding the setup of npm and the current state of
- the process.</p>
- <h4 id="path">path</h4>
- <p>If you depend on modules that define executable scripts, like test
- suites, then those executables will be added to the <code>PATH</code> for
- executing the scripts. So, if your package.json has this:</p>
- <pre lang="json"><code>{
- "name" : "foo",
- "dependencies" : {
- "bar" : "0.1.x"
- },
- "scripts": {
- "start" : "bar ./test"
- }
- }
- </code></pre>
- <p>then you could run <code>npm start</code> to execute the <code>bar</code> script, which is
- exported into the <code>node_modules/.bin</code> directory on <code>npm install</code>.</p>
- <h4 id="packagejson-vars">package.json vars</h4>
- <p>The package.json fields are tacked onto the <code>npm_package_</code> prefix. So,
- for instance, if you had <code>{"name":"foo", "version":"1.2.5"}</code> in your
- package.json file, then your package scripts would have the
- <code>npm_package_name</code> environment variable set to “foo”, and the
- <code>npm_package_version</code> set to “1.2.5”. You can access these variables
- in your code with <code>process.env.npm_package_name</code> and
- <code>process.env.npm_package_version</code>, and so on for other fields.</p>
- <p>See <a href="../configuring-npm/package-json.html"><code>package-json.md</code></a> for more on package configs.</p>
- <h4 id="current-lifecycle-event">current lifecycle event</h4>
- <p>Lastly, the <code>npm_lifecycle_event</code> environment variable is set to
- whichever stage of the cycle is being executed. So, you could have a
- single script used for different parts of the process which switches
- based on what’s currently happening.</p>
- <p>Objects are flattened following this format, so if you had
- <code>{"scripts":{"install":"foo.js"}}</code> in your package.json, then you’d
- see this in the script:</p>
- <pre lang="bash"><code>process.env.npm_package_scripts_install === "foo.js"
- </code></pre>
- <h3 id="examples">Examples</h3>
- <p>For example, if your package.json contains this:</p>
- <pre lang="json"><code>{
- "scripts" : {
- "install" : "scripts/install.js",
- "postinstall" : "scripts/install.js",
- "uninstall" : "scripts/uninstall.js"
- }
- }
- </code></pre>
- <p>then <code>scripts/install.js</code> will be called for the install
- and post-install stages of the lifecycle, and <code>scripts/uninstall.js</code>
- will be called when the package is uninstalled. Since
- <code>scripts/install.js</code> is running for two different phases, it would
- be wise in this case to look at the <code>npm_lifecycle_event</code> environment
- variable.</p>
- <p>If you want to run a make command, you can do so. This works just
- fine:</p>
- <pre lang="json"><code>{
- "scripts" : {
- "preinstall" : "./configure",
- "install" : "make && make install",
- "test" : "make test"
- }
- }
- </code></pre>
- <h3 id="exiting">Exiting</h3>
- <p>Scripts are run by passing the line as a script argument to <code>sh</code>.</p>
- <p>If the script exits with a code other than 0, then this will abort the
- process.</p>
- <p>Note that these script files don’t have to be Node.js or even
- JavaScript programs. They just have to be some kind of executable
- file.</p>
- <h3 id="best-practices">Best Practices</h3>
- <ul>
- <li>Don’t exit with a non-zero error code unless you <em>really</em> mean it.
- Except for uninstall scripts, this will cause the npm action to
- fail, and potentially be rolled back. If the failure is minor or
- only will prevent some optional features, then it’s better to just
- print a warning and exit successfully.</li>
- <li>Try not to use scripts to do what npm can do for you. Read through
- <a href="../configuring-npm/package-json.html"><code>package.json</code></a> to see all the things that you can specify and enable
- by simply describing your package appropriately. In general, this
- will lead to a more robust and consistent state.</li>
- <li>Inspect the env to determine where to put things. For instance, if
- the <code>npm_config_binroot</code> environment variable is set to <code>/home/user/bin</code>, then
- don’t try to install executables into <code>/usr/local/bin</code>. The user
- probably set it up that way for a reason.</li>
- <li>Don’t prefix your script commands with “sudo”. If root permissions
- are required for some reason, then it’ll fail with that error, and
- the user will sudo the npm command in question.</li>
- <li>Don’t use <code>install</code>. Use a <code>.gyp</code> file for compilation, and <code>prepublish</code>
- for anything else. You should almost never have to explicitly set a
- preinstall or install script. If you are doing this, please consider if
- there is another option. The only valid use of <code>install</code> or <code>preinstall</code>
- scripts is for compilation which must be done on the target architecture.</li>
- </ul>
- <h3 id="see-also">See Also</h3>
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- <li><a href="../commands/npm-run-script.html">npm run-script</a></li>
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