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run-p
command
A CLI command to run given npm-scripts in parallel.
This command is the shorthand of npm-run-all -p
.
Usage:
$ run-p [--help | -h | --version | -v]
$ run-p [OPTIONS] <tasks>
Run given npm-scripts in parallel.
<tasks> : A list of npm-scripts' names and Glob-like patterns.
Options:
--aggregate-output - - - Avoid interleaving output by delaying printing of
each command's output until it has finished.
-c, --continue-on-error - Set the flag to continue executing other tasks
even if a task threw an error. 'run-p' itself
will exit with non-zero code if one or more tasks
threw error(s).
--max-parallel <number> - Set the maximum number of parallelism. Default is
unlimited.
--npm-path <string> - - - Set the path to npm. Default is the value of
environment variable npm_execpath.
If the variable is not defined, then it's "npm."
In this case, the "npm" command must be found in
environment variable PATH.
-l, --print-label - - - - Set the flag to print the task name as a prefix
on each line of output. Tools in tasks may stop
coloring their output if this option was given.
-n, --print-name - - - - Set the flag to print the task name before
running each task.
-r, --race - - - - - - - Set the flag to kill all tasks when a task
finished with zero.
-s, --silent - - - - - - Set 'silent' to the log level of npm.
Shorthand aliases can be combined.
For example, '-clns' equals to '-c -l -n -s'.
Examples:
$ run-p watch:**
$ run-p --print-label "build:** -- --watch"
$ run-p -l "build:** -- --watch"
$ run-p start-server start-browser start-electron
npm-scripts
It's "scripts"
field of package.json
.
For example:
{
"scripts": {
"clean": "rimraf dist",
"lint": "eslint src",
"build": "babel src -o lib"
}
}
We can run a script with npm run
command.
On the other hand, this run-p
command runs multiple scripts in parallel.
The following 2 commands are similar.
The run-p
command is shorter and available on Windows.
$ run-p lint build
$ npm run lint & npm run build
Note1: If a script exited with a non-zero code, the other scripts and those descendant processes are killed with SIGTERM
(On Windows, with taskkill.exe /F /T
).
If --continue-on-error
option is given, this behavior will be disabled.
Note2: &
operator does not work on Windows' cmd.exe
. But run-p
works fine there.
Glob-like pattern matching for script names
We can use glob-like patterns to specify npm-scripts.
The difference is one -- the separator is :
instead of /
.
$ run-p watch:*
In this case, runs sub scripts of watch
. For example: watch:html
, watch:js
.
But, doesn't run sub-sub scripts. For example: watch:js:index
.
$ run-p watch:**
If we use a globstar **
, runs both sub scripts and sub-sub scripts.
run-p
reads the actual npm-script list from package.json
in the current directory, then filters the scripts by glob-like patterns, then runs those.
Run with arguments
We can enclose a script name or a pattern in quotes to use arguments. The following 2 commands are similar.
$ run-p "build:* -- --watch"
$ npm run build:aaa -- --watch & npm run build:bbb -- --watch
When we use a pattern, arguments are forwarded to every matched script.
Argument placeholders
We can use placeholders to give the arguments preceded by --
to scripts.
$ run-p "start-server -- --port {1}" -- 8080
This is useful to pass through arguments from npm run
command.
{
"scripts": {
"start": "run-p \"start-server -- --port {1}\" --"
}
}
$ npm run start 8080
> example@0.0.0 start /path/to/package.json
> run-p "start-server -- --port {1}" -- "8080"
There are the following placeholders:
{1}
,{2}
, ... -- An argument.{1}
is the 1st argument.{2}
is the 2nd.{@}
-- All arguments.{*}
-- All arguments as combined.
Those are similar to Shell Parameters. But please note arguments are enclosed by double quotes automatically (similar to npm).
Known Limitations
- If
--print-label
option is given, some tools in scripts might stop coloring their output. Because some coloring library (e.g. chalk) will stop coloring ifprocess.stdout
is not a TTY.run-p
changes theprocess.stdout
of child processes to a pipe in order to add labels to the head of each line if--print-label
option is given.
For example, eslint stops coloring underrun-p --print-label
. But eslint has--color
option to force coloring, we can use it.