如何运行本地保存的npm软件包而不在package.json上设置它们？

Question

I am trying to execute a locally saved npm package, but it is not found.

npm run jsdoc

Outputs:

npm ERR! Linux 4.15.0-24-generic
npm ERR! argv "/usr/bin/node" "/usr/local/bin/npm" "run" "jsdoc"
npm ERR! node v8.10.0
npm ERR! npm  v3.10.10

npm ERR! missing script: jsdoc
...

But I know the script is located in my node_modules/.bin , and can execute it directly:

jsdoc -> ../jsdoc/jsdoc.js*

And running it works as a pre-configured command on my package.json

  "scripts": {                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  
    "doc": "jsdoc"                                                                                                                                                                                          
  },

Is there a special environment configuration (npmrc or something similar) to make npm run look at both package.json scripts and in node_modules/.bin ?

What am I missing?

Answer 1

The command npm run is an alias for npm run-script . As seen in the docs:

SYNOPSIS
       npm run-script <command> [-- <args>...]

       alias: npm run

It will only add node_modules/.bin to context inside scripts edited in package.json.

The npm-run answer can be misleading as one can think npm commands could be referenced as git sub-commands would (git-init, git-clone etc), which in this particular case is a separate package, not related to npm run-script.