section: cli-commands title: npm-restart

description: Restart a package

npm-restart(1)

npm restart [-- <args>]

This restarts a package.

This runs a package's "stop", "restart", and "start" scripts, and associated pre- and post- scripts, in the order given below:

Note that the "restart" script is run in addition to the "stop" and "start" scripts, not instead of them.

This is the behavior as of npm major version 2. A change in this behavior will be accompanied by an increase in major version number