If you change your lint command, all the variations will inherit the modifications.

From the NPM docs: NPM will pass all the arguments after the -- directly to your script.

This feature is available on NPM 2.0.0 See the Docs.

You can pass parameters to any command.

That said, you can use the npmconfig variable to pass named parameters to your NPM scripts executions.

So, you would call npm run serve --myvarwhatever and your npmconfig var would be npmconfigmyvar.

The sole reason to write four different scripts is to reduce the pain of typing npm run serve --stagedevelopment every time even in dev environment.

Thanks for the great article, I absolutely will use this for now on.

If you add descriptions to each option definition and call.getUsage() with some template data, for example.

You test by piping in a module which exports an option definitions array.

You can then view the.parse() output for the args you pass.

This flag is typically set on the most commonly-used option to make for more concise usage (i.e.

Npm Command Line Parameters