<!doctype html> <html> <title>npm-start</title> <meta http-equiv="content-type" value="text/html;utf-8"> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../../static/style.css"> <link rel="canonical" href="https://www.npmjs.org/doc/cli/npm-start.html"> <script async=true src="../../static/toc.js"></script> <body> <div id="wrapper"> <h1><a href="../cli/npm-start.html">npm-start</a></h1> <p>Start a package</p> <h2 id="synopsis">SYNOPSIS</h2> <pre><code>npm start [-- <args>] </code></pre><h2 id="description">DESCRIPTION</h2> <p>This runs a package's "start" script, if one was provided.</p> <h2 id="see-also">SEE ALSO</h2> <ul> <li><a href="../cli/npm-run-script.html"><a href="../cli/npm-run-script.html">npm-run-script(1)</a></a></li> <li><a href="../misc/npm-scripts.html"><a href="../misc/npm-scripts.html">npm-scripts(7)</a></a></li> <li><a href="../cli/npm-test.html"><a href="../cli/npm-test.html">npm-test(1)</a></a></li> <li><a href="../cli/npm-restart.html"><a href="../cli/npm-restart.html">npm-restart(1)</a></a></li> <li><a href="../cli/npm-stop.html"><a href="../cli/npm-stop.html">npm-stop(1)</a></a></li> </ul> </div> <table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 id=npmlogo> <tr><td style="width:180px;height:10px;background:rgb(237,127,127)" colspan=18> </td></tr> <tr><td rowspan=4 style="width:10px;height:10px;background:rgb(237,127,127)"> </td><td style="width:40px;height:10px;background:#fff" colspan=4> </td><td style="width:10px;height:10px;background:rgb(237,127,127)" rowspan=4> </td><td style="width:40px;height:10px;background:#fff" colspan=4> </td><td rowspan=4 style="width:10px;height:10px;background:rgb(237,127,127)"> </td><td colspan=6 style="width:60px;height:10px;background:#fff"> </td><td style="width:10px;height:10px;background:rgb(237,127,127)" rowspan=4> </td></tr> <tr><td colspan=2 style="width:20px;height:30px;background:#fff" rowspan=3> </td><td style="width:10px;height:10px;background:rgb(237,127,127)" rowspan=3> </td><td style="width:10px;height:10px;background:#fff" rowspan=3> </td><td style="width:20px;height:10px;background:#fff" rowspan=4 colspan=2> </td><td style="width:10px;height:20px;background:rgb(237,127,127)" rowspan=2> </td><td style="width:10px;height:10px;background:#fff" rowspan=3> </td><td style="width:20px;height:10px;background:#fff" rowspan=3 colspan=2> </td><td style="width:10px;height:10px;background:rgb(237,127,127)" rowspan=3> </td><td style="width:10px;height:10px;background:#fff" rowspan=3> </td><td style="width:10px;height:10px;background:rgb(237,127,127)" rowspan=3> </td></tr> <tr><td style="width:10px;height:10px;background:#fff" rowspan=2> </td></tr> <tr><td style="width:10px;height:10px;background:#fff"> </td></tr> <tr><td style="width:60px;height:10px;background:rgb(237,127,127)" colspan=6> </td><td colspan=10 style="width:10px;height:10px;background:rgb(237,127,127)"> </td></tr> <tr><td colspan=5 style="width:50px;height:10px;background:#fff"> </td><td style="width:40px;height:10px;background:rgb(237,127,127)" colspan=4> </td><td style="width:90px;height:10px;background:#fff" colspan=9> </td></tr> </table> <p id="footer">npm-start — npm@2.1.3</p>