How to set shell for npm run-scripts in Windows

Question

I\'m running npm on Windows and would like to use & style parallel operations in run-scripts but running in parallel in cmd is kind of messy in my package.json file I\'

Answer 1

Since npm 5.1

npm config set script-shell "C:\\Program Files (x86)\\git\\bin\\bash.exe"  

or (64bit installation)

npm config set script-shell "C:\\Program Files\\git\\bin\\bash.exe"

Note that you need to have git for windows installed.

You can revert it by running:

npm config delete script-shell