Running bash scripts with npm

Question

I want to try using npm to run my various build tasks for a web application. I know I can do this by adding a scripts field to my package.json lik

Answer 1

Its totally possible...

"scripts": {
   "build": "./build.sh"
},

also, make sure you put a hash bang at the top of your bash file #!/usr/bin/env bash

also make sure you have permissions to execute the file

chmod +x ./build.sh

Finally, the command to run build in npm would be

npm run build

Answer 2

Even Simpler:

I routinely do this for one-offs and PoC's not involving a VCS

package.json

{
    "scripts": {
        "ship": "rsync -avz deployable/* <some-server>:/var/www/some-site/sub-dir/"
    },
}
...