NPM-RESTART(3)

💅 npm-restart(3) — like, the whole manual page, bestie

okay so real quick: this is the page for npm-restart, section 3 of the manual. Yes, section 3. Yes, that's a thing. Sit with it. 🫶

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✨ NAME ✨

npm-restart — restart a package. that's it. that's the whole vibe. 🔥

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

  npm.commands.restart(packages, callback)

like literally that's the call. packages, then callback. no cap. 💅

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

okay so what this does is it restarts a package — and honestly? it'll restart multiple packages too, it's not gonna gatekeep. 👑

here's the thing tho, it's not just one script. it runs a package's "stop", "restart", and "start" scripts — plus all the associated pre- and post- scripts — in this exact order, no improvising:

1. prerestart
2. prestop
3. stop
4. poststop
5. restart
6. prestart
7. start
8. poststart
9. postrestart

nine whole steps. it's giving choreography. 🧚

and if you don't specify a version? it restarts the "active" version. the main character version. ⭐

oh and — npm can restart multiple packages, bestie. you just pass multiple packages in the packages parameter. that's it. that's the whole trick. 🌈

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💀 NOTE 💀

heads up, this one matters: the "restart" script gets run in addition to the "stop" and "start" scripts — not instead of them. so don't be out here thinking restart replaces stop+start, because it does not. all three show up. 😭

this is the behavior as of npm major version 2. and if this behavior ever changes? it'll come with an increase in the major version number. periodt. 💅

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🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

• npm apihelp start
• npm apihelp stop

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mwah 💖 that's the whole page — brought to you by the March 2017 edition, straight out of the npm docs, and rewritten with so much love you'd think it was a text from your bestie at 2am. go restart something. slay. 💜