What is the purpose of the scripts section in package.json?

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What is the scripts section inside package.json?

"scripts": { "test": "echo \"Error: no test specified\" && exit 1", "start-me" : "node one.js", "start-over" : "node two.js"

}

What does start-me and start-over mean here?

Damian Green · Accepted Answer · 2018-05-24 13:13:20Z

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The 'scripts' section can be used by the npm or yarn commands to allow you to do the following; npm run start-me at which point it will execute node one.js

edited May 24, 2018 at 13:13

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Suhail Gupta Over a year ago

I could directly run node one.js. Is there any specific use?

jesusgn90 Over a year ago

Of course , scripts section is only an alias to do one or more command, is more an abstraction to final user of your user, example: your test commands are long ugly and with few flags but you easy create the script npm test and your final user don't see the ugly command, understand now?

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