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

You can also use cross-platform powershell https://github.com/powershell/powershell#get-powershell for npm scripts.

To set for single project, run this from project root folder:

npm config set script-shell pwsh --userconfig ./.npmrc

To globally set for all node projects:

npm config set script-shell pwsh [--global]