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Start a package

Synopsis

npm start [-- <args>]

Description

This runs a predefined command specified in the "start" property of a package's "scripts" object.

If the "scripts" object does not define a "start" property, npm will run node server.js.

Note that this is different from the default node behavior of running the file specified in a package's "main" attribute when evoking with node .

As of npm@2.0.0, you can use custom arguments when executing scripts. Refer to npm run-script for more details.

Example

{
  "scripts": {
    "start": "node foo.js"
  }
}
npm start

> npm@x.x.x start
> node foo.js

(foo.js output would be here)

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