How can I get npm start at a different directory?

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I usually cd into the app directory and then run npm start.

It is my feeling that there ought to be some way to run npm start with a path parameter. But, the npm start documentation contains no such feature.

I tried myself only to find npm start ./myapp does not work. Is there a way to do that?

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6 Answers

I came here from google so it might be relevant to others: for yarn you could use:

yarn --cwd /path/to/your/app run start
user_25503540

npm start --prefix path/to/your/app

& inside package.json add the following script

"scripts": {
   "preinstall":"cd $(pwd)"
}
user_86919990

This one-liner should work too:

(cd /path/to/your/app && npm start)

Note that the current directory will be changed to /path/to/your/app after executing this command. To preserve the working directory:

(cd /path/to/your/app && npm start && cd -)

I used this solution because a program configuration file I was editing back then didn't support specifying command line arguments.

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