About
npx is a tool intended to help round out the experience of using packages from the npm registry — the same way npm makes it super easy to install and manage dependencies hosted on the registry, npx makes it easy to use CLI tools and other executables hosted on the registry. It greatly simplifies a number of things that, until now, required a bit of ceremony to do with plain npm.
Easily run commands
❯ npx cowsay hello
npx: installed 10 in 3.659s
____________
< hello >
------------
\ ^__^
\ (oo)\_______
(__)\ )\/\
||----w |
|| ||
Run local commands
❯ yarn add atomic-algolia -D
❯ npx atomic-algolia
[Algolia] Adding 25 hits to algolia
[Algolia] Updating 0 hits to algolia
[Algolia] Removing 25 hits from algolia
[Algolia] 113 hits unchanged in algolia
{
objectIDs: [...],
taskID: { algolia: 5366258650 }
}
Run commands with different Node.js versions
❯ npx -p node@7 node -v
v7.10.1
Run GitHub source code
❯ npx github:piuccio/cowsay hello
❯ npx https://gist.github.com/zkat/4bc19503fe9e9309e2bfaa2c58074d32
Run http-server
❯ npx http-server -p 4000
npx: installed 27 in 9.767s
Starting up http-server, serving ./
Available on:
http://127.0.0.1:4000
http://192.168.0.100:4000
Hit CTRL-C to stop the server
see also: awesome-npx
