| .TH "NPM-RESTART" "1" "April 2026" "NPM@11.13.0" "" | |
| .SH "NAME" | |
| \fBnpm-restart\fR - Restart a package | |
| .SS "Synopsis" | |
| .P | |
| .RS 2 | |
| .nf | |
| npm restart \[lB]-- <args>\[rB] | |
| .fi | |
| .RE | |
| .SS "Description" | |
| .P | |
| This restarts a project. It is equivalent to running \fBnpm run restart\fR. | |
| .P | |
| If the current project has a \fB"restart"\fR script specified in \fBpackage.json\fR, then the following scripts will be run: | |
| .RS 0 | |
| .IP 1. 4 | |
| prerestart | |
| .IP 2. 4 | |
| restart | |
| .IP 3. 4 | |
| postrestart | |
| .RE 0 | |
| .P | |
| If it does \fInot\fR have a \fB"restart"\fR script specified, but it does have \fBstop\fR and/or \fBstart\fR scripts, then the following scripts will be run: | |
| .RS 0 | |
| .IP 1. 4 | |
| prerestart | |
| .IP 2. 4 | |
| prestop | |
| .IP 3. 4 | |
| stop | |
| .IP 4. 4 | |
| poststop | |
| .IP 5. 4 | |
| prestart | |
| .IP 6. 4 | |
| start | |
| .IP 7. 4 | |
| poststart | |
| .IP 8. 4 | |
| postrestart | |
| .RE 0 | |
| .SS "Configuration" | |
| .SS "\fBignore-scripts\fR" | |
| .RS 0 | |
| .IP \(bu 4 | |
| Default: false | |
| .IP \(bu 4 | |
| Type: Boolean | |
| .RE 0 | |
| .P | |
| If true, npm does not run scripts specified in package.json files. | |
| .P | |
| Note that commands explicitly intended to run a particular script, such as \fBnpm start\fR, \fBnpm stop\fR, \fBnpm restart\fR, \fBnpm test\fR, and \fBnpm run\fR will still run their intended script if \fBignore-scripts\fR is set, but they will \fInot\fR run any pre- or post-scripts. | |
| .SS "\fBscript-shell\fR" | |
| .RS 0 | |
| .IP \(bu 4 | |
| Default: '/bin/sh' on POSIX systems, 'cmd.exe' on Windows | |
| .IP \(bu 4 | |
| Type: null or String | |
| .RE 0 | |
| .P | |
| The shell to use for scripts run with the \fBnpm exec\fR, \fBnpm run\fR and \fBnpm | |
| init <package-spec>\fR commands. | |
| .SS "See Also" | |
| .RS 0 | |
| .IP \(bu 4 | |
| npm help run | |
| .IP \(bu 4 | |
| npm help scripts | |
| .IP \(bu 4 | |
| npm help test | |
| .IP \(bu 4 | |
| npm help start | |
| .IP \(bu 4 | |
| npm help stop | |
| .IP \(bu 4 | |
| npm help restart | |
| .RE 0 | |