awesome-npm-scripts

Blog post by Keith Cirkel

Sequel to »Why we should stop using Grunt & Gulp«

Article by Cory House

Blog post by Michael Kühnel covering advanced topics

The most comprehensive guide to using npm Scripts by Dr. Axel Rauschmayer

Talk at Nordic.js 2015 by Kate Hudson

Video tutorial series on setting up a front-end build system

script-runner

Simple task runner with a terse syntax

npm-run-all

Fully featured task runner

redrun

Expand scripts from package.json to improve execution speed

http-server

Simple zero-configuration command-line http server

live-server

Simple development http server with live reload capability

rimraf

Delete files or directories; like

del-cli

Safer file and folder deletion

Create a directory, creating parent directories if needed; like

cpr

for Node.js

cpy-cli

File/directory copying/renaming

copyfiles

Copy a list of files into a directory

sync-files

-like directory syncing with watch mode

echo-cli

Cross-platform with JS escape sequence support

clear-cli

Clear the terminal

cross-env

Set environment variables for scripts, unix-style

cross-os

Run platform-specific npm scripts

ntee

Utility that reads from standard input and writes to standard output and files; like Unix

Print a file to stdout, with optional watch mode; sorta like Unix

shx

Collection of common Unix utilities implemented in Node.js; example usage:

hashmark

Take contents of a file and output as new file with a hash in the name

gzip-size-cli

Get the gzipped size of a file or stdin

opn-cli

Open websites, files, executables, etc. with the user's preferred application

headr

Add header / banner info to a file

Bower files CLI

Get main bower files on the command line

cli-error-notifier

Send native desktop notifications when npm scripts fail

screwy

The npm scripts GUI

Forrest

npm scripts desktop client

run-npm

Run locally-installed node module executables. Useful for debugging npm scripts

npm-quick-run

Quickly run npm scripts by prefix without typing the full name

edit-script

Edit npm scripts from the command line without worrying about JSON escaping

ntl

Interactive cli menu to list and run npm scripts