Save your fingers - lesson 2 - NPM

We are programmers. We type a lot. Let’s save our fingers and make the precious keystrokes we do, count!

There’s quite a lot of shortcuts to be found in the npm command. Here’s a few that I’ve found very useful:

• npm install can be abbreviated to npm i
• npm run-script can be abbreviated to just npm run (y’all probably did that already)

• Running tests is a very common script. Hence you don’t need to use run. The full abbreviation phase is this:

  • npm run-script test can become npm run test and can become
  • npm run tst or npm run t and finally
  • npm t
• Similary the npm run-script start doesn’t need the run part either and can become npm start

PS Bonus tip, that isn’t really about writing less but could be handy: reinstall and make a new installation by going: rm -rf node_modules && npm i

In other words - remove the node_modules (and it’s subfolders) and then install the packages again.