npm-r

a faster npm run

Run an npm package script without starting unnecessary node processes. Roughly 10x faster than npm run.

$ npm-r test
> ava --verbose

  ✔ script execution (182ms)
  ✔ multiline (181ms)
  ✔ undefined return (185ms)
  ✔ callback mode (178ms)
  ✔ system access (297ms)

  5 tests passed [17:48:00]

Installation

for use in your shell

npm install -g npm-r

for use inside package scripts (recursion!)

npm install --save npm-r

Benchmark

$ time npm run benchmark
[snip]
real    0m0.308s
user    0m0.232s
sys     0m0.055s

$ time npm-r benchmark
[snip]
real    0m0.026s
user    0m0.011s
sys     0m0.009s

$ cat package.json
{
    "scripts": {
        "benchmark": "echo Hello World"
    }
}