How to suppress output when running npm scripts

Question

I have decided to experiment with npm scripts as a build tool and so far I like it. One issue I\'d like to solve is when running a script to run jshint when something doesn

Answer 1

You should be able to use both the --quiet and --silent options, as in

npm install --quiet

--quiet will show stderr and warnings, --silent should suppress nearly everything

You can also send stdout/stderr to /dev/null, like so:

npm install > "/dev/null" 2>&1

or less versbose

npm install &> /dev/null